https://pithybooks.com/tags/holocaust/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “holocaust”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ https://pithybooks.com/books/maus-i/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hiding-place/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hiding-place/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness. https://pithybooks.com/books/sarahs-key/ https://pithybooks.com/books/sarahs-key/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and silence. https://pithybooks.com/books/number-the-stars/ https://pithybooks.com/books/number-the-stars/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen. https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-boy-in-the-striped-pajamas/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-boy-in-the-striped-pajamas/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bruno moves to Out-With and befriends Shmuel through a camp fence without understanding it. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 them alive. https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 1956, and what it leaves out.