Books like The emperor of lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg

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.

Once follows Felix, a young Jewish orphan newly escaped from a Polish orphanage, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi‑occupied Poland to rescue his parents and survive the Holocaust.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

Browning’s book reveals how ordinary middle‑aged Germans of Reserve Police Battalion 101 became silent mass murderers during the Holocaust.

Hannah Arendt’s political analysis of Adolf Eichmann’s 1961–1962 Jerusalem trial, exploring the nature of evil, antisemitism, and Holocaust crimes.

In 1940s Poland, ten‑year‑old Felix and his friend Zelda escape a cattle car bound for Nazi death camps and struggle to survive on their own before finding shelter with Genia, a farm‑hand wary of Germans.

A Thread of Grace: The story of Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during World War II’s final phase

Simon, a young Polish Jew, is uprooted by the Nazis from his Warsaw home into a cramped ghetto, where his family is seized. Alone, he flees to the countryside and struggles to survive amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

Two brothers flee occupied Paris to escape the Nazis, disguising themselves as Jews to reach the free zone during World War II. Their journey of ingenuity, danger, and secrecy becomes a true story of survival and resilience.

A father's memories of the harrowing World War II years reveal how a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, sheltered him and other Jewish children from the Nazis, a true story of courage and survival.

"The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants.Through the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, Steve Sem-Sandberg, the author of the award-winning The Emperor of Lies, explores the very meaning of survival. An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by the author's sharp sense of the absurd. Passionately serious, meticulously researched, and deeply profound, this extraordinary and dramatic novel bears witness to oppression and injustice, and offers invaluable and necessary insight into an intolerable chapter in Austria's past"--

Aron, a boy from rural Poland, resettles in the Warsaw Ghetto and, with other children, risks life to smuggle food and supplies while being hunted by Nazi forces. He eventually joins Janusz Korczak’s orphanage, facing the horrors of Treblinka.

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.

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. - Publisher.