Books like Destined to live by Ruth Gruener

A biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., detailing his brilliance, his 31‑year battle with schizophrenia, and his eventual remission.

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.

Out of Hiding offers a historical look at Asia, exploring significant events that shaped the region.

Two teenage survivors clash with nature in a harsh northern California wilderness, struggling to survive but constantly threatened by death and the desire for help from a local community.

An inspiring true story of a WWII pilot’s survival, resilience, and redemption, examined through detailed battlefield context and human courage.

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

"Troubled Memory is the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of Louisiana's David Duke. Beyond chronicling one family's flight from persecution to freedom, however, it offers testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness.". "Lawrence Powell integrates the Skorecki's odyssey within the larger currents of European and recent American history. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto as a group, the Skoreckis evaded deportation to Treblinka, posed as Aryans, and ultimately made their way to New Orleans, where they settled and daughters Anne and Lila married and raised families. Equally inspiring is the story of how Anne Skorecki Levy came to grips with a survivor's obligation to honor the suffering of the past by confronting the evil of racist hatred in the present. Breaking decades of silence, she played a direct role in the unmasking and defeat of Neo-Nazi David Duke in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race."--BOOK JACKET.

Samuel R. Harris, born Szlamek Rzeznik, survived two Nazi concentration camps in Poland before being adopted by an American family; a true biography of a Holocaust survivor for young readers.

Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but lick, his physical strength and his determination not to die all played a part in him living to tell his extraordinary life story. in 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, his life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettos set up in his home town of Bedzin and sis months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing. After this harrowing experience, he was sent to work at Fürstengrube mining camp. He could have died on the 'Death March' that took him west as the Third Reich collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship, Cap Arcona, in 1945. Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.