The Best Books About The Holocaust

List of best books about the Holocaust, including jacket cover images when available. All these popular books on the Holocaust are sorted by popularity, so the highest rated books are at the top of the list. This well-researched Holocaust bibliography includes out-of-print titles and generally contains the most popular, famous, or otherwise notable books - fiction or non-fiction - about the Holocaust. If you're looking for a list of top books on the Holocaust then you're in the right place.

List books include All or Nothing, War and Genocide and more. You should be able to answer the question, "What are the best books about the Holocaust?" after checking out this list.

This greatest Holocaust book list contains various bits of information, such as the author's names and what genre the books fall under. Most of these Holocaust books can be bought on Amazon with one easy click.

The Holocaust is a topic that both William Styron and Saul Friedländer have written books about, as have other fantastic authors.

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WWII The Best Books About The Holocaust

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1 143 46 Night Elie Wiesel Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end ...more

2 85 30 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the ...more

3 71 24 Angel at the Fence Herman Rosenblat Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and ...more

4 49 14 dreapress added The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. First published in 2005, the book has won numerous awards and was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for over 230 weeks.

5 29 7 dreapress added Schindler's List

6 20 4 dreapress added Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

7 20 7 LauraNewburg added The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom The Hiding Place is a 1971 book on the life of Corrie ten Boom, written by ten Boom together with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The idea of a book on ten Boom's life began as John and Elizabeth ...more

8 28 16 The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman. Drawing on the unpublished diary of Antonina Żabińska, it recounts the true story of how she and her ...more

9 29 24 Maus Art Spiegelman The Complete Maus is a book written by Art Spiegelman.

10 10 4 dreapress added The Journal of Hélène Berr Hélène Berr

11 10 4 recommendebook added Holocaust Memoirs Gabriella Kovac

12 21 20 The Night Trilogy Elie Wiesel

13 18 17 Survival In Auschwitz Primo Levi If This Is a Man is a work by the Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration ...more

14 3 1 Trivia Wiz added Sonia's Song Sonia Korn-Grimani

15 13 14 Hitler's Willing Executioners Daniel Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen that argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were as the title indicates ...more

16 11 12 In My Hands Jennifer Armstrong

17 12 14 A Lucky Child Thomas Buergenthal A Lucky Child is a memoir written by Thomas Buergenthal, in the vein of Night by Elie Wiesel or My Brother’s Voice by Stephen Nasser, in which he recounts the astounding story of his surviving ...more

18 12 15 The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 is the second volume of Saul Friedländer's history of Nazi Germany and the Jews. It describes the German extermination ...more

19 10 13 Babi Yar Anatoly Kuznetsov Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel is an internationally acclaimed documentary novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov about the Babi Yar massacre. The two-day murder of 33,771 Jewish civilians on ...more

20 10 14 Thanks to My Mother Thanks to My Mother is the memoir of Schoschana Rabinovici, née Susanne Weksler, a young Jewish girl from Vilnius, Lithuania. The book gives a rare, detailed view of Jewish life in ...more

21 8 12 The Boys Martin Gilbert

22 4 7 The Destruction of the European Jews Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews is a book published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to ...more

23 4 7 Animals in the Third Reich Boria Sax

24 7 11 The Last of the Just Andre Schwarz-Bart The Last of the Just is a book by Andre Schwarz-Bart.

25 10 15 Encyclopedia of the Holocaust The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust was published in 1990, in tandem Hebrew and English editions, by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Israel. Included in the Encyclopedia: ...more

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Night Elie Wiesel Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end ...more

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The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the ...more

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Angel at the Fence Herman Rosenblat Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and ...more

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dreapress added The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. First published in 2005, the book has won numerous awards and was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for over 230 weeks.

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dreapress added Schindler's List

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dreapress added Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

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LauraNewburg added The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom The Hiding Place is a 1971 book on the life of Corrie ten Boom, written by ten Boom together with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The idea of a book on ten Boom's life began as John and Elizabeth ...more

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The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman. Drawing on the unpublished diary of Antonina Żabińska, it recounts the true story of how she and her ...more

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Maus Art Spiegelman The Complete Maus is a book written by Art Spiegelman.

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dreapress added The Journal of Hélène Berr Hélène Berr

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recommendebook added Holocaust Memoirs Gabriella Kovac

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The Night Trilogy Elie Wiesel

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Survival In Auschwitz Primo Levi If This Is a Man is a work by the Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration ...more

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Trivia Wiz added Sonia's Song Sonia Korn-Grimani

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Hitler's Willing Executioners Daniel Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen that argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were as the title indicates ...more

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In My Hands Jennifer Armstrong

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A Lucky Child Thomas Buergenthal A Lucky Child is a memoir written by Thomas Buergenthal, in the vein of Night by Elie Wiesel or My Brother’s Voice by Stephen Nasser, in which he recounts the astounding story of his surviving ...more

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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 is the second volume of Saul Friedländer's history of Nazi Germany and the Jews. It describes the German extermination ...more

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Babi Yar Anatoly Kuznetsov Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel is an internationally acclaimed documentary novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov about the Babi Yar massacre. The two-day murder of 33,771 Jewish civilians on ...more

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Thanks to My Mother Thanks to My Mother is the memoir of Schoschana Rabinovici, née Susanne Weksler, a young Jewish girl from Vilnius, Lithuania. The book gives a rare, detailed view of Jewish life in ...more

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The Boys Martin Gilbert

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The Destruction of the European Jews Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews is a book published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to ...more

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Animals in the Third Reich Boria Sax

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The Last of the Just Andre Schwarz-Bart The Last of the Just is a book by Andre Schwarz-Bart.

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Encyclopedia of the Holocaust The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust was published in 1990, in tandem Hebrew and English editions, by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Israel. Included in the Encyclopedia: ...more

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