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Nonfiction Rescued from the Third Reich: How One of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved the Life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Bryan Mark Rigg
Nonfiction In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe‑A Dwarf Family’s Survival of the Holocaust Yehuda Koren & Ellat Negev
Nonfiction Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes — and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS Bo Lidegaard
Nonfiction The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
Nonfiction Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People Shalom Salomon Wald
Nonfiction The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe David I. Kertzer