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May 22, 2020

Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto by Leokadia Schmidt

The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the “Aryan” side of...

New Books

May 21, 2020

Mendelevski’s Box by Roger Swindells

September 1945.Auschwitz survivor Simon Mendelevski, penniless and unkempt, returns to Amsterdam in a desperate search for his family, friends and neighbours. Simon meets two Dutch women, both of whom have also suffered. One, known...

Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation? by Ruth Rotkowitz

New Books

April 21, 2020

Escaping the Whale: The Holocaust is over. But is it ever over for the next generation? by Ruth Rotkowitz

Today, April 21 is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, aka Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I commemorate it with posting Shoah related books. To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect...