Books like 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.
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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.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.
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.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Miracle at St. Anna
Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.
The Reader
In a West German city in the late 1950s, Michael Berg, fifteen, begins an affair with Hanna, a tram conductor more than twice his age, who one day disappears. Years later, as a law student, he sees her again, on trial.