“World War II seems to be of perennial interest to readers, but events in Europe—whether it’s important battles or the Holocaust—seem to take precedence. Much less well covered is the war in Asia, including its aftermath. While many of us know about the Nuremberg trials, fewer know mu...
Why I like this book: Trudy Ludwig has treated Alter Wiener’s story about surviving the Holocaust with great compassion and dignity. Since it is a picture book, she doesn’t go into detail about the atrocities that occurred during WW II. Instead she focuses on the fact that not all Germa...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024, marked the 85th anniversary of theNazi invasion of Polandand the outbreak of World War II, which led to the Holocaust. New books about that horrendous period are still emerging. Some are written as witness testimonies by Holocaust survivors in the twilight of their lives, ...
Surviving the Holocaust, enduring the loss of one’s child, learning to live with an incurable illness, witnessing terror, or experiencing trauma—these are Phoenix Processes of the tallest order. Come through one of them with an open heart, and you will light a path through the woods for a...
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative,...
s books. She got very excited an said she wanted to write a children’s book about her survival, because she felt we needed to teach kids Holocaust stories early. She believed waiting until age 12 or later, when the Holocaust is usually taught at school (if it’s taught at all) is ...
MORE:Children's books about the Holocaust Paper Wishesby Lois Sepahban Find it:Amazon|Bookshop 10-year-old Manami and her family live on Bainbridge Island in Washington state when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The U.S. government transports her family and others to a camp in the desert....
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN Almond, David. CLAY Almond, David. KIT'S WILDERNESS Altman, Linda Jacobs. HIDDEN TEENS, HIDDEN LIVES : PRIMARY SOURCES FROM THE HOLOCAUST Alvarez, Julia. FINDING MIRACLES Alvarez, Julia HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS Anderson, Laurie ...
For twenty years, I’d stayed away from the Washington, D.C. Holocaust Museum. Their repository of SHOAH Foundation testimonies and video recordings of survivor interviews included contributions by my two surviving aunts. Their older sister, my mother, had died at age 53 when I was…Continue ...
The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate Written & Read by Jori Epstein Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, this memoir relays holocaust survivor Max Glauben’s powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience....