January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and we have a list of books to honor those stories. A handful of these are new or recent releases, with more on the way! You can browse our new nonfiction at any time or check out this display right across from that section now at the Athenaeum.
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-occupied Poland by Philip Bialowitz
The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls by Luca Crippa
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund De Waal
Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946 by Deborah Dwork
Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival by Franci Epstein
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition by Anne Frank
The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing by Adam P. Frankel
The Escape Artist by Helen Fremont
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis by Michael Haas
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival during the Second World War by Allan Gerald Levine
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
A Fifty-year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors by Richard Dean Rosen
Lifesaving Letters: A Child’s Flight from the Holocaust by Milena Roth
Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor “Teddy” Rubin, Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, and Medal of Honor Recipient by Daniel M. Cohen
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
Gretel’s Story: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis by Gretel Wachtel
Night by Elie Wiesel
Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp by Eddy de Wind
Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse
