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Books like The Righteous

Readers who finished The Righteous by Martin Gilbert and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by RIGHTEOUS GENTILES IN THE HOLOCAUST and HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945).

Top related books to The Righteous

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry

Sheila Isenberg

Themes: RIGHTEOUS GENTILES IN THE HOLOCAUST • HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

Anne Frank

Josephine Poole

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn Paperback English

Daniel Mendelsohn

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History

Hilary Earl

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

O, Jerusalem!: The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant

Marc H. Ellis

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945

Raul Hilberg

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Irene Opdyke

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

One Family’s Shoah: Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe (Studies in European Culture and History)

H. Lindenberger

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

After the Holocaust: The Long Road to Freedom

Erna F. Rubinstein

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#10

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz SS

Denis Avey

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#11

A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart & Protecting the Earth

Roger Gottlieb

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#12

Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust

Robert N. Rosen

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#13

The Third Reich (Seminar Studies in History)

D. G. Williamson

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#14

Open the Gates!: Dramatic Personal Story of “Illegal” Immigration to Israel

Ehud Avriel

Themes: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue

#15

My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank: The Memoirs of Anne Frank’s Best Friend

Jacqueline Van Maarsen

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#16

Wiesenthal File, The

Alan Levy

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#17

Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival

Clara Kramer

Themes: RIGHTEOUS GENTILES IN THE HOLOCAUST

#18

Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize Winner)

R. Ruth Linden

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#19

Warsaw Diary

Michael Zylberberg

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#20

Behind the Secret Window

Nellie Toll

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#21

Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World (The Library of Holocaust Testimonies)

Muriel Emanuel

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#22

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust

John Bierman

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#23

The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?

Michael J. Neufeld

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

#24

A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Picture Book Biography)

David A. Adler

Themes: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945)

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of RIGHTEOUS GENTILES IN THE HOLOCAUST, HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945) — the same threads that run through The Righteous by Martin Gilbert. Among the authors featured: Sheila Isenberg, Josephine Poole, Daniel Mendelsohn, Hilary Earl, and others.