Books like The Diary of a Young Girl
Two years of entries by a Jewish teenage girl hiding with her family above an Amsterdam warehouse, from her thirteenth birthday in 1942 until the Gestapo found the annex in 1944.
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Man's Search for Meaning
An Austrian psychiatrist's account of three years across four concentration camps and the logotherapy he built out of the observation that the prisoners who lived were the ones who had something still to mean.
Dora Bruder
Modiano comes across a notice in a December 1941 newspaper asking for news of a missing fifteen-year-old Jewish girl in Paris, and spends years trying to trace her.
Maus
A cartoonist reconstructs his father's survival of Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, in a graphic memoir that's also about the impossibility of telling the story at all.
Native Realm
Miłosz's autobiography of his education, from a childhood in Lithuania through the war in Warsaw to his defection, as a search for a European identity.
Abandoning a Cat
A short memoir of Murakami's father, a teacher drafted into the war in China, that starts from a childhood afternoon when the two of them left a cat at the beach and found it waiting at home.
Peeling the Onion
Grass's memoir of his boyhood in Danzig, his war, including his service as a teenager in the Waffen-SS, and his years of becoming a writer.
The Color of Water
A Black writer tells his own story alongside that of his white Jewish mother, who raised twelve children and refused to discuss her past.
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.
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
The collected letters of Vincent van Gogh, most of them to his brother Theo, a portrait of artistic obsession, poverty and vision in the painter's own words.
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 Tongue Set Free
Canetti remembers his childhood from 1905 to 1921, in a Sephardic Jewish family in Bulgaria, Manchester, Vienna and Zurich, and the mother who taught him German.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou's Stamps, Arkansas childhood under Jim Crow, the pastor-grandmother's store, the trauma that silenced her, and the teacher who taught her back into language.