Best Holocaust Novels Novels & Stories

His elegant, flowing script detailed the paranoia of the European witch trials, the mud and blood of the trenches in the Great War, and the blinding, horrific ash of Hiroshima. One particular ledger from the mid-twentieth century made her hand tremble. In it, Lucian recounted the liberation of the camps during the Holocaust. His words were devoid of his usual aristocratic detachment, replaced instead by a profound, weeping sorrow for the millions of lives snuffed out by mortal cruelty. He wrote of the scent of burning ash, the hollow eyes of the survivors, and the terrifying realization that his own monstrous nature paled in comparison to what humans could do to one another. No wonder he is

Aldous added. "Take it easy on the child, Aldous, you know she misses the city, she had never stepped foot out of this house for a month now!" Her mother Editha was always so protective of her little girl, their one and only child. Aldous and Editha were both assigned by the nazi government to run the Jasenovac concentration camp notorious for its barbaric practices to a large number of victims. Jasenovac specialized in one-on-one violence of particularly brutal kind and prisoners were primarily murdered manually with the use of blunt objects such as knives, hammers, and axes.

“That’s very Slaughterhouse-Five of you.” For those who don’t know, Slaughterhouse-Five is probably the most famous book by Kurt Vonnegut. Although it’s an anti-war story about the firebombing of Dresden during World War II, it’s also a science fiction novel. Among other insane plot points, the main character and a woman he’s never met get abducted by aliens and put in a zoo on the aliens’ home planet, where the extraterrestrials watch them exactly like humans would watch a pair of chimpanzees in a cage here on Earth.

Mj began to shake her head no and Dante only nodded in response, “Yes baby...the holocaust was an attempt to wipe wolves from the planet, but since Hitler was only working with the Triad he killed humans and wolves alike.” Mj almost blanched as she covered her mouth, “why would the Triad allow him to kill humans I thought they just wanted to kill wolves?” Dante smiled at Mj and stroked her arm gently as he held the book in his hand like a heavy brick. “I suppose they figured if they killed everyone then nobody would ask questions or find out that we existed outside of books and bad storytelling.” Dante tried to hand Mj the book but she jerked away from it like it might actually hurt her, “