Books like Bending Toward the Sun by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

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.

The diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl hiding with her family in Amsterdam during WWII, recorded daily life, hopes, and fears, becoming a global testament to the Holocaust.

Three white women in 1962 Mississippi team up with their Black maids to write a forbidden book that challenges the town’s rigid social order.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

During the Great Depression, a veterinary student becomes caretaker of a traveling circus, forming a bond with a star equestrian, an abusive trainer, and an untrainable elephant, a relationship that becomes their only hope for survival.

In 1964 South Carolina, Lily Owens, grieving her mother’s death, seeks refuge with a fierce stand‑in mother and a trio of black beekeeping sisters who open her to the secret world of bees, honey, and healing.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A devoted dog reflects on life, love, and racing while watching his owner, a race car driver, navigate family trials and professional ambition.

A young Congolese woman's true story of survival after the Gatumba massacre, her later migration to the United States, and how art and activism helped her heal.

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.

Memoirs of the author's experiences during the Holocaust. Born in Warsaw, she was ten years old at the time of the German occupation. Relates her internment in the Warsaw ghetto, and in the camps Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe, until the liberation.

From the back cover: On September 1, 1939, Bertha Ferderber lived quietly in Cracow, untouched by the course of world events. On April 15, 1945 when the British troops liberated the emaciated in-mates of Bergen-Belsen, she became a survivor. In her remarkable memoirs, she leads us from one place to another, in flight, in hiding, in narrow escapes, on to the struggle for the rescue of her children. Naked, barefoot, stripped of all- yet never abandoning her human image. She describes the life and demise of the Galician shtetl in unforgettable pages. "There was once a shtetl in Galicia and it is no more," she mourns with nostalgia and grief.

Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler's List. Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, a Catholic nanny devoted to the family. When Michael's mother has a stroke, Gertruda promises the dying woman that she will make her way to Palestine and raise him as her own son. Written with the invaluable assistance of Michael, now seventy-two and living in New York City, GERTRUDA'S OATH re-creates Michael and Gertruda's amazing journey. Gripping vignettes bring to life the people who helped ensure their survival, including SS officer Karl Rink, who made it his mission to save Jews after his own Jewish wife was murdered; Rink's daughter, Helga, who escaped to a kibbutz, where she lived until her recent death; and the Jewish physician Dr. Berman, who aided Michael and Gertruda through the worst of times. GERTRUDA'S OATH is a story of extraordinary courage and moral strength in the face of horrific events. Like Schindler's List, it transcends history and religion to reveal the compassion and hope that miraculously thrives in a world immersed in war without end.From the Hardcover edition.

A memoir of Thomas Buergenthal’s survival of Auschwitz, the ghettos, and a labor camp as a ten‑year‑old Jewish boy, later reunited with his mother and resettled in the United States.