The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
2,223-word summary · 10 min read
Sarah's Key
In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and silence.
2,591-word summary · 12 min read
Number the Stars
Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris retells the years of Lale Sokolov as tattooist at Auschwitz Birkenau, his love for Gita Furman, and the food trades and quiet risks that kept…
2,442-word summary · 11 min read
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno moves to Out-With and befriends Shmuel through a camp fence without understanding it.
3,101-word summary · 14 min read
Night
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year…
2,594-word summary · 12 min read