All but my life (1957)

A survivor's memoir with a full arc, from a family home in Poland through slave labor camps to liberation. Near the end of the war Gerda Weissmann survived a death march that lasted months, on which her closest friend died in her arms. Among the American troops who freed her in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in May 1945 was Lieutenant Kurt Klein, whom she later married. First published in 1957, it is plainly told and less brutal on the page than Night, which makes it a good second memoir, especially for younger readers. One Survivor Remembers, the short documentary based on it, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).