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1	Mans Search for Meaning more books like this by Viktor Emil Frankl Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" -- the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the ... see all copies from £5.29! new only from £5.86! \| first editions
2	Night more books like this by Elie Wiesel Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms ... see all copies from £2.24! new only from £3.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story more books like this by Diane Ackerman A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen ... see all copies from £9.33! new only from £9.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Ordinary Men more books like this by Christopher R Browning This study is an account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Browning tells about such Germans, and helps the reader to understand, not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically, from the ordinary men of the title into ... see all copies from £4.69! new only from £9.18! \| first editions
5	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million more books like this by Daniel Mendelsohn In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. "The Lost" begins as the story of a boy ... see all copies from £5.85! new only from £6.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust more books like this by Livia Bitton-Jackson The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentration camp as one of the few teenage inmates, and the tiny but miraculous twists of fate that helped her survive against the odds. see all copies from £1.45! new only from £4.88!
7	The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom more books like this by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill The true story of two sisters sent to a Nazi concentration camp for helping Jews, and how they survived. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.49! \| first editions
8	Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. more books like this by Primo Levi In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. "Survival in Auschwitz" is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for ... see all copies from £5.79! new only from £6.17!
9	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 more books like this by Saul Friedlander With "The Years of Extermination," Saul Friedlander completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the cooperation of local authorities, the assistance of ... see all copies from £11.60! new only from £11.98! \| first editions
10	Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust more books like this by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Diary of Anne Frank more books like this by Anne Frank Anne Frank's breathtakingly intimate account of the nightmare of Hitler's Final Solution is a modern classic. It has been translated into more than fifty languages, with the first American edition appearing in 1952, and historians and other scholars have searched for more information about the remarkable young woman who endures as a symbol of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £8.55! \| first editions
12 view cover	The drowned and the saved more books like this by Primo Levi Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. THE ... see all copies from £2.74! new only from £9.19! \| first editions
13 view cover	Maus I & II Paperback Boxed Set more books like this by Art Spiegelman The winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, this set includes volumes one and two of "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Raymond Sokolov, "Wall Street Journal." see all copies from £14.80! new only from £17.37! \| first editions
14 view cover	Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil more books like this by Professor Hannah Arendt A BRILLIANT AND DISTURBING STUDY OF THE CHARACTER AND TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN - STEPHEN SPENDER, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. THE TASK SHE SETS FOR HERSELF FAR TRANCENDS THE CRIMES OF ONE MAN SINCE IT DEALS WITH THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF OUR TIME...THE PROBLEM OF THE HUMAN BEING WITHIN A MODERN TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM...OUR BEST PROTECTION AGAINST ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Upstairs Room more books like this by Johanna Reiss This volume is part of a series of easy reading for GCSE/Key Stage 4 containing a selection of accessible, modern short novels and stories. The series is intended in particular for those teenage readers who find other books difficult or heavy-going. Many cross-curricular themes emerge from the reading: ecology, animal rights, apartheid, Vietnamese ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust more books like this by Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin This memoir recounts how one Jewish woman went underground in Nazi Germany, bravely posing as a non-Jew to survive. In her deception, she fell in love with and married a Nazi Party member. Here, accompanied by reproductions of original documents, she describes the psychological trauma of her ordeal. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide: With a New Preface by the Author more books like this by Robert Jay Lifton (Introduction by) A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.. see all copies from £7.02! new only from £10.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account more books like this by Miklós. Nyiszli When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef ... see all copies from £8.48! new only from £9.39! \| first editions
19 view cover	Cage more books like this by Ruth Minsky Sender Translated from the Yiddish by the author, The Cage is a compelling memoir of the author's life from 1939, when the Germans invaded her native Poland, to the 1945 liberation of the concentration camp in which she was held prisoner. After her mother's arrest in 1942, Riva struggles to provide for her younger brothers in the Lodz ghetto. The ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.86! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering more books like this by Norman G Finkelstein In this study, the author interrogates the conventional accounts of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys at the ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £8.36! \| first editions
21 view cover	Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 more books like this by Saul Friedlander Despite the plethora of books on Nazi Germany and its genocidal "Final Solution," there have been few sustained general studies, and none at all on the prewar period until the publication of "The Years of Persecution", the first volume of Saul Friedlander's epic study "Nazi Germany and the Jews". Covering the period from Hitler's rise to power to ... see all copies from £7.55! new only from £12.36! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life more books like this by Tom Reiss Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, "The Orientalist" traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a bestselling author in Nazi Germany. see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by), Vaclav Havel (Afterword by) Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from £7.26! new only from £11.77! \| first editions
24 view cover	The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 more books like this by Lucy Dawidowicz see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.54! \| first editions
25 view cover	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl more books like this by Anne Frank The classic text of the diary Anne Frank kept during the two years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.24! \| first editions

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