Top five holocaust books

Holocaust is considered to be the lowest point humankind has ever resorted to amidst being the greatest example of extreme anti-Semitism (prejudice and hatred against Jews), where six million Jews were systematically persecuted by the Nazi Germans (with Hitler as the leader). Many holocaust articles and books have been written during and after World War Two. Here's a list of the highly read books on the holocaust.

Top five holocaust books

1. Nazi Germany and the Jews: By Saul Friedländer Using an array of numerous first-hand accounts, historian Saul Friedländer presents a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the motive behind one of the highly cultured and civilised countries in the world stooping down to exterminating humans.
2. Ordinary Men: By Christopher R. Browning
In this highly engaging book, Christopher R. Browning tells us the story of German Reserve Police Battalion 101 who shot 38,000 Jews and deported 45,000 to the Nazi concentration camps. He sheds light on how middle-class ordinary men (due to fear and dictatorship) became killers, and a part of this callous activity. 3. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: By Yisrael Gutman
Gutman in this detailed and well-organised book relates the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising led by the Jews against the Third Reich in 1943. Emmanuel Ringelblum (Ghetto resident) chronicles his daily life in the form of diaries and other artifacts which enabled Gutman to reveal the development of this resistance movement and the struggle for life that ultimately led to death.
4. If This Is Man: By Primo Levi
With clarity and compassion, Levi describes the daily activities in the extermination camp of Auschwitz. He poignantly narrates the sad truth of the fact that Nazis were not out just to wipe out the Jewish population, but wanted to break their morale in which they succeeded. The horrible filth, the working in stench and foul conditions, humiliation, life in a prison camp, Levi leaves no story untold of the German torture and living hell on earth. 5. The Lost: By Daniel Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn details the journey on a search of his extended family that was a part of the genocidal campaign and monstrous events in the concentration camps which were a part of the ‘Final Solution’ that incinerated millions (Jews, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, socialists and communists).

Additional list of books

1. The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank 2. Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel 3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom 5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 6. The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig 7. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 8. The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein