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[skull_bearer]

I'm looking for Holocaust novels for an essay. The books have to be:

a) fiction, no survivor testemonies.
b) set in a concentration camp, or have a significant part take place in a concentration camp.
c) involve characters who have a direct involvement in said concentration camp (no Boy in the Stripes Pyjamas, for example).

The ones I've got so far are Village of a Million Spirits' and 'Fateless', with 'This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen' as a maybe. Unfortunately, I don't think AIoM would be allowed, despite filling out the criteria :)

Any ideas, people?

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[the-little-owl.livejournal.com]

What about Erich Maria Remarque's "Spark of Life"?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Try your local library's catalog search -- using the advanced search you can usually do things like put in 'holocaust' and 'fiction' in the subject and "concentration camp" in the general keywords and get ideas.

For example: http://catalog.mbln.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=A331417664T75.3756&profile=bpl1&page=4&group=0&term=holocaust+fiction&index=.SW&uindex=&oper=and&term=concentration+camp&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab441&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!horizon&1331417872419

[kellicat.livejournal.com]

"The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick. If you can use short stories, I highly recommend this one. As for novels, it looks like The Seventh Well by Fred Wander could work.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

There are a couple in French by Patrick/Patrizio Modiano as seen from the perspective of a child of victims trying to discover what happened to them (and am I ever familiar with that one!)

The best known is: 'Rue des Boutiques Obscures' (translated into English as: 'Missing Person')

[arkan2.livejournal.com]

Well, I've got issues with The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, but I believe it fits your criteria. (The main character spends a lot of the story as a concentration camp prisoner, which I assume fits qualification "c"?)