No Road Leading Back by Chris Heath
An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their...
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A Light In The Darkness by Aaron Zevy
Illustrator: Susan Tebbutt Josh and Willy are next door neighbours and best friends. They play basketball, rent scary movies, and goof around. When a rock is thrown through the window of Josh’s house while...
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur J. Magida
The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student in wartime Berlin who not just survived but resisted—and retained his infectious...
Opening The Gates of Hell by Mark Hodkinson
The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Bergen-Belsen Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied solider to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945....
An approachable, personal, and historical book on Jews, Ukraine, Russia, and Nazis
Thoughts on The Borscht-Meister of Babi Yar by Roger Levine Do you want to read an easy-to-read book that vividly shows a vital period and region of world history barely known in the USA?...
Don’t Let Me Down by Kate Stollenwerck
Family Secrets.Stolen Art.Epic Heartache.Three things Hailey Rogers can’t seem to escape. Hailey Rogers’ life has returned to normal: hanging out with her boyfriend, Blake, training for cross-country, and slogging through the rest of Junior...
Deadlines, Donuts & Dreidels by Jennifer Wilck
Her childhood crush may be her best story yet. Journalist Jessica Sacks’s career is on the line if she doesn’t ace this next assignment. She must interview firefighter Thomas Carville, Browerville’s celebrated hero—and her...
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
What does it feel like, standing in the moments that will mark your life? When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable...
Humans of Judaism: Everyone Has a Story. What’s Yours? by Nikki Schreiber
Discover Humans of Judaism, a heartwarming collection of beautiful portraits and moving stories filled with joy, bravery, survival, community, perseverance, and unyielding hope—curated by the editor and founder of the popular social media brand @humansofjudaism. Nikki...
Auschwitz – A Mother’s Story by Rosa de Winter-Levy
How I fought to survive and see my daughter again Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. ‘My child, I have to go with her!’ I scream....
