Books like Das Mädchen Anne Frank

An adolescent's candid, funny, self-scrutinizing voice unfolds inside a hidden annex while history closes in — the reading experience is intimate and everyday, made unbearable by what the reader knows is coming.

A son interviews his difficult father about surviving Auschwitz, and the act of making the book becomes part of the book — spare cartooning carrying unbearable weight, funny and devastating by turns.

A child's diary that begins with piano lessons and birthday parties and gradually darkens into cellars, shortages, and lost friends — the ordinariness of the voice is what makes the war register.

A harrowing first-person account of the Cambodian genocide seen through a small girl's eyes — desperate, fast-moving, and devastating, yet sustained by family love and courage.