Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46 (Brandeis UP, 2025) records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted...
I read and loved the original version but didn’t know until I was looking through theKindle Unlimitedlibrary that there was a Young Reader’s version. This WWII book is such an incredible memoir about a woman who, along with her sister, is arrested for hiding Jews and survives the concent...
Anne and Hannah were neighbors as well as in the same class in school and their friendship continued from there - until Anne and her family left for "Switzerland" - that is, they went into hiding (although Hannah did not know it at the time - she actually thought that they were in ...
In MOONCAKES by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker each main character learns to trust the other and share their troubles rather than hiding them. Find It: Amazon | Bookshop | BookishlyJewish Review Endurance within bonding means this relationship is meant to last. It can withstand all challenges. In...
In this small, poor, rural village they banded together and pooled their resources to save somewhere between three and five thousand Jews from the Nazis. Camus was in this village as this was happening, as people were hiding, as they were separated from their loved ones, while he himself ...
Green’s hidden master is a bit like his God in that he is hiding in plain sight. Mordecai M. Kaplan, who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary where Green was ordained, founded the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, which Green later led. In a footnote, Green tells us that he omit...
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Soon after arriving in Athens, the family was betrayed by Nazi sympathizers and had to go into hiding. Iossif was separated from his mother and cared for by a nanny. Although the nanny, who was named Athina, was devoted to Ventouras, the separation was traumatic and confusing to him. In...
was 16. Although she would survive and go on to become a great stateswoman in the country from which she was deported, her mother Yvonne, her brother Jean, and father André, would never return to their homeland. They were part of the six million murdered simply because they were Jews. ...
Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46 (Brandeis UP, 2025) records the experiences of Greek Jews who returned to their native country after World War II, when many went into hiding, fought in combat, became refugees, or were deported, some to Nazi death camps. Though they wanted...