Five Amber Beads by Richard Aronowitz
New Jewish Fiction Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art...
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Farewell Atlantis: Recollections by Valentīna Freimane
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II Before the start of WWII, some 93,000 Jews lived in Latvia. Almost half of them, 43,000 people, resided in Riga. Only 14,000 survived WWII. Valentīna Freimane’s memoir Farewell...
Hidden in Plain Sight by Julie Brill
A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before...
The Unspeakable by Nicola Hanefeld
Breaking my Family’s Silence surrounding the Holocaust Researching family history means stepping into the unknown; Nicola discovered that after an old passport (issued in 1935) unexpectedly fell into her life in 2004. The passport...
Thirteen in Auschwitz by Lauren Meyerowitz Port
My Grandmother’s Fight to Survive Holocaust Survivor True Stories While imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück, 13-year-old Ruth Krautwirth maintains a sense of dignity even as she struggles to stay alive. As a grandmother, Ruth...
The Courtyard by Benjamin Parket, Alexa Morris
In the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris, one Jewish family is protected by their working-class community. It’s 1937, the eve of World War II, and young Bernard lives with his Polish-immigrant family in a working-class...
Spark of Hope: An Autobiography by Luba Wrobel Goldberg
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII Luba is born into a poor Jewish family in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She provides a unique lens into a now vanished world, as she describes her childhood in...
Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir by Shulamit Reinharz
Holocaust Survivor True Stories The authors of this striking memoir, Hiding in Holland, survivor Max Rothschild and his daughter Shulamit Reinharz, tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during...
The Right to Happiness by Helen Schary Motro
After all they went through. Stories New Jewish Fiction Innovative short stories explore echoes of the Holocaust upon survivors and their children, lessons of post-trauma for the 21st century. In eleven compelling stories inheritors...
In the Wake of Madness: My Family’s Escape from the Nazis by Bettie Lennett Denny
Holocaust Survivor True Stories A cache of poignant letters A narrow escape from Nazi-occupied Europe A family scattered and forever changed by war In 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately...
