Man’s Search for Meaning (1959) by Victor Frankl

Frankl, a psychiatrist and Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp near Krakow, Poland, wrote this seminal study of human life by using reflections of his imprisonment to build the theoretical basis for logotherapy.

After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust (2002) by Elie Wiesel

Also a concentration camp survivor, Elie Wiesel writes this monograph 50 years after his imprisonment as a reflection on Nazi atrocities and what can be learned from them.

When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland (1986) by Nechama Tec

This is a historical account of the role of Christian Poles in aiding persecuted Jewish Poles.

Poland (2015) by James A. Michener

A novelized version of accurate Polish history, this book particularly describes the conflicted history between Poland and its European neighbors, especially Germany.