Books like Number the Stars
In Nazi-occupied Copenhagen in 1943, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her family hide her Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen, as the Danes smuggle their Jewish neighbours to safety in Sweden.
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The Book of Lost Names
Eva Abrams, a semi-retired Florida librarian, sees a newspaper photograph of a book stolen by the Nazis that she has not seen in sixty years, the book that holds the key to the papers she and a forger named Rémy made for Jewish children in occupied France.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
A nine-year-old boy moves with his SS-officer father to a house next to a camp whose fence he does not understand, and makes a friend on the other side of it.
The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.
The Rose Code
A debutante, an East End girl and a shy puzzle-solver become codebreakers at Bletchley Park, then reunite on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding to unmask the traitor among them.
The Book Thief
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl in a small town in Nazi Germany, steals books and shares them with her neighbours in bomb shelters, while her family hides a Jewish man in the basement, in a story narrated by Death.
Lilac Girls
Three women's lives converge on the Ravensbrück concentration camp: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite volunteering at the French consulate; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager sent there for her part in the resistance; and Herta Oberheuser, a young German doctor who takes a post there.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A novel based on the account of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew made to tattoo identification numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz, who falls in love with one of them, Gita.
Goodnight Mister Tom
In 1939 William Beech, a thin, frightened evacuee from London, is billeted with Tom Oakley, a gruff old widower in a country village who has kept to himself for forty years.
The Property
An Israeli woman and her grandmother travel to Warsaw to reclaim a family apartment and discover that the property, and the grandmother, were more than they looked.
Abigail
A headstrong Budapest general's daughter is hidden in a strict Protestant girls' school during WWII and slowly learns who among the severe staff is protecting her.