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🔗 Prison Camp Memoirs

First-person accounts of life inside prison camps, bearing witness to suffering, endurance, and the fierce will to remember what others would rather forget.
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1973
A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.
4.35
14k+
🔨 Soviet History🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes⛏️ Forced Labor
The Gulag Archipelago Summary
The Gulag Archipelago 92%
A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973
4.35
14k+ ratings
🔨 Soviet History🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes⛏️ Forced Labor
The Long Walk
by Slavomir Rawicz • 1956
Seven prisoners escape a Soviet gulag. Four thousand miles later, four reach India.
4.24
22k+
🏚️ Soviet Gulags🔓 Prison Escapes🏕️ Survival Narratives
The Long Walk Summary
The Long Walk 91%
Seven prisoners escape a Soviet gulag. Four thousand miles later, four reach India.
by Slavomir Rawicz 1956
4.24
22k+ ratings
🏚️ Soviet Gulags🔓 Prison Escapes🏕️ Survival Narratives
The Forgotten Highlander
by Alistair Urquhart • 2010
Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.
4.54
6k+
🏯 Japanese Pow Camps🌊 Pacific War Theatre⛏️ Forced Labor
The Forgotten Highlander Summary
The Forgotten Highlander 91%
Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.
by Alistair Urquhart 2010
4.54
6k+ ratings
🏯 Japanese Pow Camps🌊 Pacific War Theatre⛏️ Forced Labor
Not Forgotten
by Kenneth Bae • 2016
North Korea sentences a missionary to 15 years hard labor. His jailers become his congregation.
4.13
1k+
🏕️ North Korean Labor Camps📖 Missionary Memoirs✝️ Faith Under Persecution
Not Forgotten Summary
Not Forgotten 91%
North Korea sentences a missionary to 15 years hard labor. His jailers become his congregation.
by Kenneth Bae 2016
4.13
1k+ ratings
🏕️ North Korean Labor Camps📖 Missionary Memoirs✝️ Faith Under Persecution
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1973
A secret network of camps swallowed millions on quotas, using bodies until nothing remained.
4.33
35k+
🏛️ Soviet History⛓️ Totalitarian Regimes🚫 Political Repression
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 Summary
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 91%
A secret network of camps swallowed millions on quotas, using bodies until nothing remained.
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973
4.33
35k+ ratings
🏛️ Soviet History⛓️ Totalitarian Regimes🚫 Political Repression
The Tin Ring
by Zdenka Fantlova • 1996
A tin ring, six camps, and the love that carried a young woman through the Holocaust.
4.44
457
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir🏚️ Concentration Camps💞 Love And Survival
The Tin Ring Summary
The Tin Ring 90%
A tin ring, six camps, and the love that carried a young woman through the Holocaust.
by Zdenka Fantlova 1996
4.44
457 ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir🏚️ Concentration Camps💞 Love And Survival
Papillon
by Henri Charrière • 1969
Framed for murder, he spent 14 years planning the one escape Devil's Island thought impossible.
4.23
76k+
🔓 Prison Escape🏝️ Devil'S Island🔇 Solitary Confinement
Papillon Summary
Papillon 90%
Framed for murder, he spent 14 years planning the one escape Devil's Island thought impossible.
by Henri Charrière 1969
4.23
76k+ ratings
🔓 Prison Escape🏝️ Devil'S Island🔇 Solitary Confinement
Los hornos de Hitler
by Olga Lengyel • 1947
A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.
4.42
21k+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor🏥 Camp Infirmary
Los hornos de Hitler Summary
Los hornos de Hitler 90%
A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.
by Olga Lengyel 1947
4.42
21k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor🏥 Camp Infirmary
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun
by Michael Gruenbaum • 2015
An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.
4.32
2k+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs👦 Child Survivors🚂 Concentration Camps
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun Summary
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun 90%
An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.
by Michael Gruenbaum 2015
4.32
2k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs👦 Child Survivors🚂 Concentration Camps
Crucible of Terror
by Max Liebster • 2003
He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.
4.69
166
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs🇩🇪 Nazi Germany🕊️ Spiritual Resistance
Crucible of Terror Summary
Crucible of Terror 90%
He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.
by Max Liebster 2003
4.69
166 ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs🇩🇪 Nazi Germany🕊️ Spiritual Resistance
After Auschwitz
by Eva Schloss • 2013
Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.
4.32
8k+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs🧱 Camp Survival🕵️ Life In Hiding
After Auschwitz Summary
After Auschwitz 90%
Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.
by Eva Schloss 2013
4.32
8k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs🧱 Camp Survival🕵️ Life In Hiding
Warsaw Boy
by Andrew Borowiec • 2014
He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.
4.09
180
🇵🇱 Polish History⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front🕵️ Resistance Movements
Warsaw Boy Summary
Warsaw Boy 90%
He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.
by Andrew Borowiec 2014
4.09
180 ratings
🇵🇱 Polish History⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front🕵️ Resistance Movements
Education of a Felon
by Edward Bunker • 1999
A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.
4.14
2k+
⛓️ Prison Memoir💰 Career Criminal🔪 Prison Survival
Education of a Felon Summary
Education of a Felon 90%
A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.
by Edward Bunker 1999
4.14
2k+ ratings
⛓️ Prison Memoir💰 Career Criminal🔪 Prison Survival
The Boy on the Wooden Box
by Leon Leyson • 2013
Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.
4.38
30k+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs👦 Child Survivor🧱 Ghetto Life
The Boy on the Wooden Box Summary
The Boy on the Wooden Box 89%
Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.
by Leon Leyson 2013
4.38
30k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs👦 Child Survivor🧱 Ghetto Life
Prisoner
by Jason Rezaian • 2019
544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.
3.88
2k+
✋ Political Imprisonment📰 International Journalism🧱 Solitary Confinement
Prisoner Summary
Prisoner 89%
544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.
by Jason Rezaian 2019
3.88
2k+ ratings
✋ Political Imprisonment📰 International Journalism🧱 Solitary Confinement
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
by Simone Arnold Liebster • 2000
Refused the Nazi salute at twelve. Reform school. Parents to camps. Then she chose to forgive.
4.72
2k+
📖 Holocaust Memoirs🚩 Nazi Occupation🙏 Religious Persecution
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Summary
Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe 89%
Refused the Nazi salute at twelve. Reform school. Parents to camps. Then she chose to forgive.
by Simone Arnold Liebster 2000
4.72
2k+ ratings
📖 Holocaust Memoirs🚩 Nazi Occupation🙏 Religious Persecution
Crucible of Terror
by Max Liebster • 2017
Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.
4.90
87
🕯️ Holocaust Survival✝️ Faith During Persecution🌅 Spiritual Transformation
Crucible of Terror Summary
Crucible of Terror 89%
Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.
by Max Liebster 2017
4.90
87 ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Survival✝️ Faith During Persecution🌅 Spiritual Transformation
Hostage
by Eli Sharabi • 2025
He read his captors like a book. The worst news arrived the day he was freed.
4.74
11k+
🪢 Hostage Memoirs🌍 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict🧠 Psychological Resilience
Hostage Summary
Hostage 89%
He read his captors like a book. The worst news arrived the day he was freed.
by Eli Sharabi 2025
4.74
11k+ ratings
🪢 Hostage Memoirs🌍 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict🧠 Psychological Resilience
My Friend Anne Frank
by Hannah Pick-Goslar • 2023
Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.
4.66
8k+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs📔 Anne Frank💔 Lost Families
My Friend Anne Frank Summary
My Friend Anne Frank 89%
Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.
by Hannah Pick-Goslar 2023
4.66
8k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs📔 Anne Frank💔 Lost Families
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree
by Laura Hillman • 2003
Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.
4.16
6k+
🕯️ Holocaust Testimony🌿 Survivor Memoirs📋 Schindler Survivors
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree Summary
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree 89%
Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.
by Laura Hillman 2003
4.16
6k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Testimony🌿 Survivor Memoirs📋 Schindler Survivors
1001 Nights in Iraq
by Shant Kenderian • 2005
How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?
3.93
146
🏜️ Gulf War🔗 Pow Memoirs🌍 Identity In Exile
1001 Nights in Iraq Summary
1001 Nights in Iraq 89%
How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?
by Shant Kenderian 2005
3.93
146 ratings
🏜️ Gulf War🔗 Pow Memoirs🌍 Identity In Exile
The Jailhouse Lawyer
by Calvin Duncan • 2025
He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.
4.49
1k+
🔓 Wrongful Conviction🔗 Mass Incarceration✍️ Prison Memoir
The Jailhouse Lawyer Summary
The Jailhouse Lawyer 89%
He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.
by Calvin Duncan 2025
4.49
1k+ ratings
🔓 Wrongful Conviction🔗 Mass Incarceration✍️ Prison Memoir
Song of the Nightingale
by Helen Berhane • 2009
Her captors beat her until the stick broke. She still refused to recant.
4.35
173
✝️ Christian Persecution🔥 Faith Under Fire🇪🇷 Eritrean History
Song of the Nightingale Summary
Song of the Nightingale 89%
Her captors beat her until the stick broke. She still refused to recant.
by Helen Berhane 2009
4.35
173 ratings
✝️ Christian Persecution🔥 Faith Under Fire🇪🇷 Eritrean History
Escape from Saddam
by Lewis Alsamari • 2007
He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.
4.05
270
🏴 Life Under Dictatorship🧳 Refugee Memoirs🛂 Illegal Immigration
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam 89%
He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.
by Lewis Alsamari 2007
4.05
270 ratings
🏴 Life Under Dictatorship🧳 Refugee Memoirs🛂 Illegal Immigration
Life and Death in Shanghai
by Nien Cheng • 1986
When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.
4.33
14k+
🔥 Cultural Revolution👮 Totalitarian Regimes⛓️ Political Imprisonment
Life and Death in Shanghai Summary
Life and Death in Shanghai 89%
When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.
by Nien Cheng 1986
4.33
14k+ ratings
🔥 Cultural Revolution👮 Totalitarian Regimes⛓️ Political Imprisonment
Orange Is the New Black
by Piper Kerman • 2010
A decade-old drug crime. A year in federal prison. The hidden world of women doing time.
3.72
207k+
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔒 Prison Memoir⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform
Orange Is the New Black Summary
Orange Is the New Black 89%
A decade-old drug crime. A year in federal prison. The hidden world of women doing time.
by Piper Kerman 2010
3.72
207k+ ratings
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔒 Prison Memoir⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform
When Broken Glass Floats
by Chanrithy Him • 2000
Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.
4.18
5k+
🏴 Khmer Rouge👧 Child Survivor🗣️ Survivor Testimony
When Broken Glass Floats Summary
When Broken Glass Floats 89%
Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.
by Chanrithy Him 2000
4.18
5k+ ratings
🏴 Khmer Rouge👧 Child Survivor🗣️ Survivor Testimony
Night
by Elie Wiesel • 1956
A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.
4.38
1.4M+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir👨‍👦 Father And Son🙏 Loss Of Faith
Night Summary
Night 89%
A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.
by Elie Wiesel 1956
4.38
1.4M+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir👨‍👦 Father And Son🙏 Loss Of Faith
L'instinct de mort
by Jacques Mesrine • 1984
From mourning a dead songbird to mastering the prison break: the gangster France could never hold.
4.31
422
🔓 Prison Escapes📝 Criminal Memoir🗼 French Underworld
L'instinct de mort Summary
L'instinct de mort 89%
From mourning a dead songbird to mastering the prison break: the gangster France could never hold.
by Jacques Mesrine 1984
4.31
422 ratings
🔓 Prison Escapes📝 Criminal Memoir🗼 French Underworld
First They Killed My Father
by Loung Ung • 2000
Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.
4.36
55k+
💀 Cambodian Genocide🪖 War Memoir👧 Child Survivor
First They Killed My Father Summary
First They Killed My Father 89%
Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.
by Loung Ung 2000
4.36
55k+ ratings
💀 Cambodian Genocide🪖 War Memoir👧 Child Survivor
Grim Begins
by Wiktor Miesok • 2025
Cast out by his Stasi father, a border guard discovers that honor survives only among thieves.
4.59
313
🏚️ Gulag Fiction🗡️ Honor Among Thieves🤝 Prison Brotherhood
Grim Begins Summary
Grim Begins 88%
Cast out by his Stasi father, a border guard discovers that honor survives only among thieves.
by Wiktor Miesok 2025
4.59
313 ratings
🏚️ Gulag Fiction🗡️ Honor Among Thieves🤝 Prison Brotherhood
Patriot
by Alexei Navalny • 2024
Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.
4.51
17k+
🇷🇺 Russian Politics⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes💰 Anti-Corruption
Patriot Summary
Patriot 88%
Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.
by Alexei Navalny 2024
4.51
17k+ ratings
🇷🇺 Russian Politics⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes💰 Anti-Corruption
Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945
by Marie Jalowicz Simon • 2014
She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.
3.80
3k+
🕯️ Holocaust Survival🚩 Nazi Germany👁️ Hiding In Plain Sight
Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945 Summary
Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945 88%
She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.
by Marie Jalowicz Simon 2014
3.80
3k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Survival🚩 Nazi Germany👁️ Hiding In Plain Sight
Forgiveness
by Mark Sakamoto • 2014
One grandfather survived a Japanese POW camp. One grandmother, internment. Their kids married.
4.00
5k+
🏕️ Japanese Internment📖 Multigenerational Memoir🪖 Pow Survival
Forgiveness Summary
Forgiveness 88%
One grandfather survived a Japanese POW camp. One grandmother, internment. Their kids married.
by Mark Sakamoto 2014
4.00
5k+ ratings
🏕️ Japanese Internment📖 Multigenerational Memoir🪖 Pow Survival
The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku • 2020
Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.
4.62
134k+
📖 Holocaust Testimony🛡️ Moral Resilience🤝 Friendship And Survival
The Happiest Man on Earth Summary
The Happiest Man on Earth 88%
Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.
by Eddie Jaku 2020
4.62
134k+ ratings
📖 Holocaust Testimony🛡️ Moral Resilience🤝 Friendship And Survival
Marching Powder
by Rusty Young • 2003
A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.
4.31
31k+
⛓️ Prison Memoir🧳 Drug Smuggling💰 Prison Economy
Marching Powder Summary
Marching Powder 88%
A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.
by Rusty Young 2003
4.31
31k+ ratings
⛓️ Prison Memoir🧳 Drug Smuggling💰 Prison Economy
God's Hostage
by Andrew Brunson • 2019
An American pastor arrested as a spy. Twenty-two months as Turkey's hostage. One faith to break.
4.41
810
✝️ Christian Persecution🌍 Missionary Memoirs🔒 Political Imprisonment
God's Hostage Summary
God's Hostage 88%
An American pastor arrested as a spy. Twenty-two months as Turkey's hostage. One faith to break.
by Andrew Brunson 2019
4.41
810 ratings
✝️ Christian Persecution🌍 Missionary Memoirs🔒 Political Imprisonment
The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld • 1983
War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.
3.89
921
🕯️ Holocaust Testimony🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🏛️ Cultural Memory
The Story of a Life Summary
The Story of a Life 88%
War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.
by Aharon Appelfeld 1983
3.89
921 ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Testimony🧬 Intergenerational Trauma🏛️ Cultural Memory
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
by James B. Stockdale • 1995
A downed pilot applies Stoicism in a torture cell. The blueprint for surviving the unsurvivable.
4.11
644
🪖 War Memoirs⛓️ Captivity Narratives🏛️ Applied Stoicism
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot Summary
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot 88%
A downed pilot applies Stoicism in a torture cell. The blueprint for surviving the unsurvivable.
by James B. Stockdale 1995
4.11
644 ratings
🪖 War Memoirs⛓️ Captivity Narratives🏛️ Applied Stoicism
King Rat
by James Clavell • 1962
A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.
4.20
45k+
🏕️ Wwii Pow Camp💰 Camp Black Market😈 Charismatic Antihero
King Rat Summary
King Rat 88%
A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.
by James Clavell 1962
4.20
45k+ ratings
🏕️ Wwii Pow Camp💰 Camp Black Market😈 Charismatic Antihero
The Parrot's Perch
by Karen Keilt • 2019
Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.
4.23
334
🏛️ Political Imprisonment🦋 Survivor Memoirs🩹 Trauma Recovery
The Parrot's Perch Summary
The Parrot's Perch 88%
Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.
by Karen Keilt 2019
4.23
334 ratings
🏛️ Political Imprisonment🦋 Survivor Memoirs🩹 Trauma Recovery
The Hiding Place
by Corrie ten Boom • 1971
A Dutch watchmaker hides Jews, survives a concentration camp, and must forgive as her sister asked.
4.48
363k+
🪖 Wwii Resistance🕊️ Holocaust Survival👯‍♀️ Sisterly Bond
The Hiding Place Summary
The Hiding Place 88%
A Dutch watchmaker hides Jews, survives a concentration camp, and must forgive as her sister asked.
by Corrie ten Boom 1971
4.48
363k+ ratings
🪖 Wwii Resistance🕊️ Holocaust Survival👯‍♀️ Sisterly Bond
Nisei Daughter
by Monica Itoi Sone • 1979
A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.
3.90
1k+
⛩️ Japanese American History🧳 Wwii Incarceration🎭 Cultural Duality
Nisei Daughter Summary
Nisei Daughter 88%
A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.
by Monica Itoi Sone 1979
3.90
1k+ ratings
⛩️ Japanese American History🧳 Wwii Incarceration🎭 Cultural Duality
Prisoners of Hope
by Dayna Curry • 2002
Arrested by the Taliban for their faith. Then the towers fell, and the bombing began.
3.99
2k+
🕊️ Missionary Memoirs🔒 Captivity Narratives🇦🇫 Women In Afghanistan
Prisoners of Hope Summary
Prisoners of Hope 88%
Arrested by the Taliban for their faith. Then the towers fell, and the bombing began.
by Dayna Curry 2002
3.99
2k+ ratings
🕊️ Missionary Memoirs🔒 Captivity Narratives🇦🇫 Women In Afghanistan
Writing My Wrongs
by Shaka Senghor • 2013
He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.
4.25
5k+
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔗 Prison Memoir🕊️ Redemption Narratives
Writing My Wrongs Summary
Writing My Wrongs 88%
He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.
by Shaka Senghor 2013
4.25
5k+ ratings
🏛️ Mass Incarceration🔗 Prison Memoir🕊️ Redemption Narratives
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
by Nelson Mandela • 2003
Twenty-seven years in prison. Then he became president of the country that put him there.
4.42
608
🏴 Apartheid Resistance🔗 Political Imprisonment🇿🇦 South African History
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2 Summary
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2 88%
Twenty-seven years in prison. Then he became president of the country that put him there.
by Nelson Mandela 2003
4.42
608 ratings
🏴 Apartheid Resistance🔗 Political Imprisonment🇿🇦 South African History
The Pianist from Syria
by Aeham Ahmad • 2017
After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.
4.27
2k+
🏚️ Syrian Civil War🫒 Palestinian Diaspora🎹 Art As Resistance
The Pianist from Syria Summary
The Pianist from Syria 88%
After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.
by Aeham Ahmad 2017
4.27
2k+ ratings
🏚️ Syrian Civil War🫒 Palestinian Diaspora🎹 Art As Resistance
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank • 1947
A Jewish teenager's diary of two years in an Amsterdam attic, hiding from the Nazis.
4.20
4.2M+
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir📔 Wartime Diary🌱 Adolescence In Wartime
The Diary of a Young Girl Summary
The Diary of a Young Girl 88%
A Jewish teenager's diary of two years in an Amsterdam attic, hiding from the Nazis.
by Anne Frank 1947
4.20
4.2M+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Memoir📔 Wartime Diary🌱 Adolescence In Wartime
Making Bombs for Hitler
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch • 2012
A Ukrainian girl builds bombs for the Nazis while searching for the sister torn from her.
4.33
13k+
🏭 Forced Labor Camp🧒 Child Survivor🤝 Found Family
Making Bombs for Hitler Summary
Making Bombs for Hitler 88%
A Ukrainian girl builds bombs for the Nazis while searching for the sister torn from her.
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 2012
4.33
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🏭 Forced Labor Camp🧒 Child Survivor🤝 Found Family
Roman by Polanski
by Roman Polański • 2007
He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.
4.12
827
🎬 Filmmaking Memoir🎥 Director Biographies🕯️ Holocaust Survival
Roman by Polanski Summary
Roman by Polanski 88%
He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.
by Roman Polański 2007
4.12
827 ratings
🎬 Filmmaking Memoir🎥 Director Biographies🕯️ Holocaust Survival
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