Books like Parallel journeys by Eleanor H. Ayer

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.

A true story of a 15‑year‑old Jewish boy, Jack Mandelbaum, who is separated from his family and endures the horrors of Nazi concentration camps while holding on to hope, friendship, and the will to survive.

Schindler's List is a fictional account of German industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved 1,300 Jews from the Holocaust.

Fourteen young Holocaust survivors recount their harrowing lives as children hidden by non-Jewish helpers, revealing the courage and compassion that kept them alive during the war.

A historical account of World War II and the discrimination faced by individuals during that era.

Describes how certain people, both Jews and Gentiles, were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis during the Holocaust despite the price they would pay if caught.

If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camps alive. The average life expectancy of a new entrant was three months. This truly amazing story offers a revealing glimpse into the realities of the Holocaust and its effects on our world.

Irene Opdyke’s biography of 17‑year‑old Irene Gut chronicles a young Poles' courageous defiance of Nazi oppression during World War II, revealing a personal narrative of moral resistance amid the Holocaust.

A true story of the Holocaust, told by survivor Lola Rein Kaufman, who, after donating a childhood dress to a museum, shares her experience of growing up Jewish during Nazi Germany.

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.

A personal account of a German Jewish girl’s childhood and survival through Nazi persecution, including poems that echo her experiences.

Anita Lobel recounts her childhood as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust and her years in exile in Sweden, offering a poignant first‑hand perspective on survival and resilience.

A memoir anthology of sixteen Jewish Holocaust survivors, each recounting personal experiences from 1939-1945 that illuminate the horrors faced, the courage displayed, and the hope that sustained them.

A firsthand account of Jewish teenagers surviving the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw during the Holocaust.

With his mother's parting words ringing in his ears, fourteen-year-old Solomon Perel set out from Nazi-occupied Poland hoping to find safety across the new Soviet frontier. Like large numbers of other Jews fleeing the Germans, Perel faced staggering odds against his survival. What actually transpired was far different from what anyone could have imagined. By a startling twist of fate, the young Jew found unexpected refuge ... as a student in an elite Hitler Youth school. Now this extraordinary and true story appears in English translation for the first time. With searing power and passion, Europa, Europa recounts Solomon Perel's harrowing struggle living a nightmare from which there seemed no escape. By the time Solly, as he was called by his family, left Poland that night in 1939, he was already an experienced refugee. Sensing the oncoming Nazi terror, his family had fled Germany several years before. This time, however, the family could not stay together and the youngster would soon be on his own. Reaching the Soviet shore after a dramatic river crossing, Perel was placed in a Russian orphanage, where he was accepted into the Komsomol, the Communist organization for young people. Then came June 22, 1941. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union Perel was ordered, along with the other Jewish children, to flee into the interior. He fell into the hands of the German forces. Paralyzed by fear, and with a courage born of despair, Perel told his captors that he was, in reality, an ethnic German. To his astonishment, he was believed, and from that point on, his survival centered on his ability to conceal his true identity. Taken under the wing of the Wehrmacht unit, Perel experienced combat, and was lauded as a model of German youth contributing at the front. Then, in an extraordinary turn of events, Perel was transferred back to Germany, and awarded a coveted spot in an exclusive boarding school training Hitler Youth to face the challenges of the Fuhrer's vision of postwar Europe. Tormented by the ethical struggle of his position - in effect, joining the ranks of those attempting to exterminate his people - at the same time Perel lived in terror of what seemed the inevitable discovery of his real identity.

Examines the liberation of Europe after World II, the aftermath of the Holocaust, displaced‑person camps, survivors’ firsthand accounts, and how these Jewish refugees rebuilt lives in new countries.