Books like Lisa by Carol Matas

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

In 1943 Copenhagen, ten‑year‑old Annemarie Johansen helps her Jewish friend Ellen Rosen escape Nazi persecution, learning courage and resilience while navigating war‑time hardships.

A contemporary Jewish girl named Hannah travels back to Nazi‑occupied Poland during Passover and must confront the horrors of the Holocaust, learning why remembering history matters.

During World War II, young Englishwoman Jean Paget endures a brutal Japanese death march in Malaya, survives, and later returns to both Malaya and a remote Australian outpost to honor the villagers who saved her, confronting new challenges with wartime resilience.

In Nazi‑occupied Denmark, teenage Jews, led by Lisa, join an underground resistance and must flee for their lives.

Jules, after surviving two tragedies, realizes her visions are deadly and must be passed on to save others—she and her friends take on the perilous mission of preventing new disasters.

A history of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. This book combines historical research with first-person accounts and individual stories to bring this time to life for readers. From the first chapter, with its story of a young Jewish girl who was rescued from the depths of despair and starvation in the camps by a fellow prisoner who wore the pink triangle, to the last, entitled It Gets Better, which outlines the strides forward in gay rights made in the decades since the war, the feeling of bravery and perseverance in the face of inhuman cruelty shines through.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

They ask you how would you describe this book? Well, I don't know, dont care even if it was in my underwear!!! 'Ow would I know if I ain't read the flamin' book

A young girl's survival during World War II in Poland and Auschwitz