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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,826 ratings — published 1947
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,700 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,446 ratings — published 1956
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.58 — 256,882 ratings — published 1980
The Drowned and the Saved (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,473 ratings — published 1986
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,155 ratings — published 1963
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.16 — 976,220 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,579 ratings — published 1946
La tregua (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,583 ratings — published 1963
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,902,099 ratings — published 2005
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,709 ratings — published 1986
If This Is a Man / The Truce (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.54 — 22,554 ratings — published 1987
Fatelessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,709 ratings — published 1975
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,844 ratings — published 1946
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,170 ratings — published 1982
L'amico ritrovato (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.04 — 38,720 ratings — published 1971
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.43 — 158,804 ratings — published 1991
The Destruction of the European Jews (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,461 ratings — published 1961
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,426 ratings — published 2007
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,071 ratings — published 2006
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.77 — 15,220 ratings — published 1962
Everything is Illuminated (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.89 — 184,179 ratings — published 2002
La memoria rende liberi: La vita interrotta di una bambina nella Shoah (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,982 ratings — published 2015
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,179,719 ratings — published 2018
The Periodic Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,615 ratings — published 1975
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,973 ratings — published 1974
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.26 — 80,811 ratings — published 1946
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,893 ratings — published 1992
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,237 ratings — published 2006
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,456 ratings — published 2015
The Last Jew of Treblinka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,030 ratings — published 1997
Un sac de billes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,113 ratings — published 1973
L'inferno di Treblinka (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,447 ratings — published 1944
Fino a quando la mia stella brillerà (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,378 ratings — published 2015
Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,087 ratings — published 1990
The Krakow Ghetto Pharmacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.12 — 958 ratings — published 1982
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.20 — 624,857 ratings — published 1989
Austerlitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,243 ratings — published 2001
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,331 ratings — published 1986
Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,555 ratings — published 2018
Per questo ho vissuto: La mia vita ad Auschwitz-Birkenau e altri esili (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.40 — 387 ratings — published 2013
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,315 ratings — published 2000
Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,299 ratings — published 2001
Dora Bruder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.56 — 9,057 ratings — published 1997
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,171 ratings — published 2015
The Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 3.79 — 233,036 ratings — published 1995
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.32 — 24,799 ratings — published 1946
Address Unknown (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.27 — 28,147 ratings — published 1938
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as shoah)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,193 ratings — published 1966
“Haredi leaders were afraid that if Jews were to free themselves from their anti-Semitic enemies in various European countries, the rank and file of European Jewry would turn their backs on Jewish religion, and the Haredi world would cease to exist. This did not happen. Haredi Jews never had it so good as they now have it in Israel, where their numbers reach well above one million.
During World War II, my maternal grandfather was given the opportunity, by members of the Jewish Agency, to save himself and the community he led from the approaching Romanian Fascists, aided and guided by the Nazis, who were about to catch up with the Jews of his town. The Jewish Agency people offered to smuggle him and others of his community out of Romania and into the soon-to-be-formed State of Israel. He refused. ”I would rather be with the Nazis," he said to them, "than with the Zionists." When the Fascists and the Nazis finally arrived at the gates of his town, he welcomed them with bread and salt, the way kings were once welcomed when entering a city. In response, they emptied their bullets on his head, took those of his children who were in town to the nearby Rut River, threw them into the water, making sure they drowned to death, then shot his wife, the mother of the drowned children. His daughter, my mother, never forgave the Zionists for the Nazis' crimes. Makes sense? No. Man's reality is rarely logic's best friend.”
― Careful, Beauties Ahead!
During World War II, my maternal grandfather was given the opportunity, by members of the Jewish Agency, to save himself and the community he led from the approaching Romanian Fascists, aided and guided by the Nazis, who were about to catch up with the Jews of his town. The Jewish Agency people offered to smuggle him and others of his community out of Romania and into the soon-to-be-formed State of Israel. He refused. ”I would rather be with the Nazis," he said to them, "than with the Zionists." When the Fascists and the Nazis finally arrived at the gates of his town, he welcomed them with bread and salt, the way kings were once welcomed when entering a city. In response, they emptied their bullets on his head, took those of his children who were in town to the nearby Rut River, threw them into the water, making sure they drowned to death, then shot his wife, the mother of the drowned children. His daughter, my mother, never forgave the Zionists for the Nazis' crimes. Makes sense? No. Man's reality is rarely logic's best friend.”
― Careful, Beauties Ahead!
“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many of the victims—already, as Ilse Heinrich said, half dead—did not survive long enough after the war to talk about it.
While many older Soviet women were reluctant to talk of the rape, younger survivors feel less restraint today. Nadia Vasilyeva was one of the Red Army nurses who were cornered by the Germans on the cliffs of the Crimea. Three years later in Neustrelitz, northwest of Ravensbrück, she and scores of other Red Army women were cornered again, this time by their own Soviet liberators intent on mass rape. Other women make no excuses for the Soviet rapists. ‘They were demanding payment for liberation,’ said Ilena Barsukova. ‘The Germans never raped the prisoners because we were Russian swine, but our own soldiers raped us. We were disgusted that they behaved like this. Stalin had said that no soldiers should be taken prisoner, so they felt they could treat us like dirt.’
Like the Russians, Polish survivors were also reluctant for many years to talk of Red Army rape. ‘We were terrified by our Russian liberators,’ said Krystyna Zając. ‘But we could not talk about it later because of the communists who had by then taken over in Poland.’ Nevertheless, Poles, Yugoslavs, Czechs and French survivors all left accounts of being raped as soon as they reached the Soviet lines. They talked of being ‘hunted down’, ‘captured’ or ‘cornered’ and then raped.
In her memoirs Wanda Wojtasik, one of the rabbits, says it was impossible to encounter a single Russian without being raped. As she, Krysia and their Lublin friends tried to head east towards their home, they were attacked at every turn. Sometimes the approach would begin with romantic overtures from ‘handsome men’, but these approaches soon degenerated into harassment and then rape. Wanda did not say she was raped herself, but describes episodes where soldiers pounced on friends, or attacked them in houses where they sheltered, or dragged women off behind trees, who then reappeared sobbing and screaming. ‘After a while we never accepted lifts and didn’t dare go near any villages, and when we slept someone always stood watch.”
― Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
While many older Soviet women were reluctant to talk of the rape, younger survivors feel less restraint today. Nadia Vasilyeva was one of the Red Army nurses who were cornered by the Germans on the cliffs of the Crimea. Three years later in Neustrelitz, northwest of Ravensbrück, she and scores of other Red Army women were cornered again, this time by their own Soviet liberators intent on mass rape. Other women make no excuses for the Soviet rapists. ‘They were demanding payment for liberation,’ said Ilena Barsukova. ‘The Germans never raped the prisoners because we were Russian swine, but our own soldiers raped us. We were disgusted that they behaved like this. Stalin had said that no soldiers should be taken prisoner, so they felt they could treat us like dirt.’
Like the Russians, Polish survivors were also reluctant for many years to talk of Red Army rape. ‘We were terrified by our Russian liberators,’ said Krystyna Zając. ‘But we could not talk about it later because of the communists who had by then taken over in Poland.’ Nevertheless, Poles, Yugoslavs, Czechs and French survivors all left accounts of being raped as soon as they reached the Soviet lines. They talked of being ‘hunted down’, ‘captured’ or ‘cornered’ and then raped.
In her memoirs Wanda Wojtasik, one of the rabbits, says it was impossible to encounter a single Russian without being raped. As she, Krysia and their Lublin friends tried to head east towards their home, they were attacked at every turn. Sometimes the approach would begin with romantic overtures from ‘handsome men’, but these approaches soon degenerated into harassment and then rape. Wanda did not say she was raped herself, but describes episodes where soldiers pounced on friends, or attacked them in houses where they sheltered, or dragged women off behind trees, who then reappeared sobbing and screaming. ‘After a while we never accepted lifts and didn’t dare go near any villages, and when we slept someone always stood watch.”
― Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
