Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II Series by Walter Leopold, Les Leopold, Janina Hescheles, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Zeev Scheinwald, Ella Scheinwald, Natalie B. Hess, Nanette Blitz Konig, Joseph Schupack, Leokadia Schmidt, Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp, Deborah Donnelly, Manny Steinberg

4.45 · 75 ratings
  • Outcry - Holocaust memoirs (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #1)
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    Outcry - Holocaust memoirs (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #1)

    Manny Steinberg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2007

    Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs, a Profoundly Moving AutobiographyMendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi extermination camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story.Born in 1925 in the Jewish ghetto in Radom (Poland), Manny soon realized that people of Jewish faith were increasingly being regarded as outsiders. In September 1939 the Nazis invaded, and the nightmare started... more

  • Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #2)
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    Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #2)

    Deborah Donnelly

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2016

    A Candle and a Promise The Troubling but ultimately Triumphant Memoirs of Holocaust Survivor Hank Brodt A story of resilience, Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs - A Candle and a Promise makes the memories of Holocaust survivor Hank Brodt come alive. It offers a detailed historical account of being a Jewish teenager under the Nazi regime, shedding light on sickening truths in an honest, matter-of-fact way... more

  • The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #3)
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    The Dead Years: Holocaust Memoirs (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #3)

    Joseph Schupack

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2017

    Poignant Holocaust Survivor Story Offering a unique perspective on the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations Holocaust survivor stories need to be kept alive. Every year, survivors with unique testimonies are passing away. Soon, we will no longer be able to hear first-hand from the people who survived the Holocaust. Books and video testimonials will be the only ways to get to know their moving stories... more

  • Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #4)
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    Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #4)

    Leokadia Schmidt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2019

    The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the “Aryan” side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith’s shed.

  • My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a twelve-year-old Girl (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #5)
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    My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a twelve-year-old Girl (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #5)

    Janina Hescheles, Yaroslav Hrytsak

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2011

    While still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this harrowing report from her hiding place in Cracow. The notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, about the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age... more

  • Remembering Ravensbrück: Holocaust to Healing (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #6)
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    Remembering Ravensbrück: Holocaust to Healing (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #6)

    Natalie B. Hess

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2020

    In her luminous and engrossing memoir, award-winning writer and teacher, Natalie Hess, takes us from a sheltered childhood in a small town in Poland, into, through, and after the horrors of the Holocaust. When her parents are rounded up and perish in the Treblinka concentration camp, a Gentile family temporarily hides six-year-old Natalia... more

  • Wolf: A Story of Hate (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #7)
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    Wolf: A Story of Hate (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #7)

    Zeev Scheinwald, Ella Scheinwald

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2020

    The true story of a young Jewish man imprisoned in corporate-owned labor camps during WWIIHis name is Wolf.He was caught up in the most vicious and disgraceful mass slaughter of people in history.His experiences during the Holocaust are relevant today, resonating with decent human beings who are concerned about morally corrupt leaders and their admiring masses, which, together with self-serving corporations, can orchestrate tragedies against their own populations... more

  • Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #8)
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    Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #8)

    Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2020

    A young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate.A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews.Why did this murderer risk his own life to save these children?An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein... more

  • Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #9)
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    Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #9)

    Nanette Blitz Konig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2018

    A monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of other Jews were imprisoned by the Nazi's with a minimum chance of survival. Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam. They met again in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before Anne died... more

  • Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from inside the Third Reich (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #10)
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    Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from inside the Third Reich (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II #10)

    Walter Leopold, Les Leopold

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2020

    Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter?Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real time, and shares his story of Jewish resistance in this shocking WW2 diary.Through the eyes of a self-declared “revolutionary Jew” we follow Walter into the hell of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938, from which he is miraculously released. Pressured by the Gestapo to flee the country, he refuses. We will never know why... more

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