Books like Irena's jars of secrets by Marcia K. Vaughan

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 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.

A sweeping novel of Jewish refugees’ daring escape from a Cyprus detention camp to Palestine, highlighting the struggle to founded Israel.

An account of Leon Leyson’s childhood in Poland, his forced migration to ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust, and his rescue by Oskar Schindler.

A touching tale of a young Japanese American girl growing up with her close-knit family in 1930s California, confronting prejudice while learning the meaning of home and hope.

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

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.

From New York Times bestselling author Tilar Mazzeo comes the extraordinary and long forgotten story of Irena Sendler the female Oskar Schindler who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II now adapted for a younger audience.

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.

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.

In this children’s fantasy, Donavan’s word‑jar overflows, and in a clever trade he learns how giving words can bring unexpected gifts back into his life.

In Victorian London, Bridie Devine, England’s most renowned female detective, must outwit crooked surgeons and fanatical anatomists to rescue Christabel Berwick, a kidnapped child who may be the era’s most extraordinary spectacle.