If you have followed my blog I write many reviews of survival memoirs of the Holocaust. As a reader you find genres that grasp you and you get lost in them for one reason or another. I have my own personal reasons I believe I'm drawn to the memoirs and stories of the Holocaust while others may want to learn and understand what happened to their relatives.
Throughout my life I have read numerous Holocaust memoirs, ones I have even forgotten at this point. But each has left a small impact on my life, so whether I have reviewed them yet or not here is my list of Holocaust memoirs and stories that have changed my view on humanity and evil.
1) Rena's Promise
2) Night
3) Anne Frank's Diary
4) The Pianist
5) Hidden in the Spotlight
6) Sarah's Key
7) Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
8) The Book Thief
9) The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
10) Survivors: True Stories of Children of the Holocaust
11) In our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe - A Dwarf Family's survival of the Holocaust
12) Doctors from Hell
13) The Zookeepers Wife
14) The Boy in the Striped Pajama's
15) The Lost: the search for six in six million
All of these books have brought a piece of closure and education to me. I can't explain to you or myself exactly what this means. Nor do I want to attempt too. But it's a piece of the world's history that we cannot repeat. Religion, race, color, whatever the issue it cannot be repeated.
These books have allowed me to expand my genres of reading other memoirs and brought acceptance of a different life outside of my own into my world.
Today marks 70 years for the liberation of Auschwitz, today marks the change of a new world. For the 11 million victims killed by one man's reign and anger, I remember your sacrifice so my children will never have to go through the horror you did.
Google has some great stories for the public and world to read. Here is a link in case you missed it!
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