A Worthy Life by Dahlia Moore
Based on a True Story New Jewish Fiction When Abigail finds her grandmother’s diary, the atrocious memories of the Holocaust horrors suddenly crash into the lives of the two women. Abigail knows that her...
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Good for a Single Journey by Helen Joyce
Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII At the outbreak of WWI, the Spiegels flee their home in Poland. The Hasidic couple struggles to adjust to life in Vienna. One daughter is in love with a...
Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
“I spent the first three years of my life unaware of the disaster that had befallen my family.” Annette Libeskind Berkovits writes: “I was shaped by the aftermath of the Holocaust…I adapted…grew a protective...
To Live Another Day by Elizabeth Rosenberg
New Jewish Fiction Three New York City girls form an irrevocable bond that compensates for the emotional needs not met by their own families. Through the lens of the main character, To Live Another...
The Cello Still Sings by Janet Horvath
A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music Holocaust Heritage A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is...
The Butterfly and the Axe by Omer Bartov
New Jewish Fiction Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian...
Flower of Vlora by Anna Kohen
Growing up Jewish in Communist Albania Covering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a funny and tense account of Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania and how they were saved...
The Apprentice of Buchenwald by Oren Schneider
The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life...
The Glassmaker’s Son by Peter Kupfer
Looking for the World My Father Left Behind in Nazi Germany Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII A blend of lyrical memoir and sober history, The Glassmaker’s Son recounts a son’s decades-long quest to uncover...
Running for Shelter: A True Story by Suzette Sheft
Holocaust Books for Young Adults Vienna, late 1930s. Curious, red-headed Inge Eisenger leads a privileged life with her glamorous, distant mother. When forced to flee from Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland, Inge sees her young...
