The Corset Maker by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
Whoever saves a soul, saves the world A Parisian Count, a Moroccan arms smuggler, and an orphaned Spanish boy test the convictions and tug at the heart of Rifka Berg, a young Jewish corsetiere...
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The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story by Nechama Birnbaum
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by...
The Shoemaker’s Son: The Life of a Holocaust Resister by Laura Beth Bakst
When the Soviet Union invaded Iwje, Poland in September 1939, David Bakszt’s life was thrown into turmoil. His father’s business was shuttered, his family was impoverished overnight, and his tight-knit community was disbanded. Though...
A Doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero by W Jack Romberg
Imagine a German Jew who was a decorated German soldier in World War I, a resister in Cologne at the start of Hitler’s reign of terror, and a Silver Star decorated U.S. Army soldier....
Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist, and Teacher by Robert Krell
I have long described child Holocaust survivors as “elderly children.” We were forced to grow up overnight and lost pieces of childhood – of play and security, of comfort and predictability, of parental love...
Defying Death on the Danube: A Holocaust Survival Story by Debbie J Callahan, Henry Stern
The incredible story of a young man surviving the horrors of the Holocaust Horst Stern’s life has never been an easy one, even prior to witnessing the devastation of Kristallnacht in Berlin in 1938....
The House on Thrömerstrasse: A Story of Rebirth and Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust by Ron Vincent
Louis and Jenni Böhm were a middle-class Jewish couple who established a thriving business and raised a family in a small country town in Upper Silesia in 1885. The book follows the fortunes of...
If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died by Emanuel Rosen
The Holocaust and its aftermath were not often discussed in families of second-generation survivors. In Tel Aviv of the 1960s, Emanuel Rosen grew up hearing the staccato of his mother’s typewriter, but had no...
The Man Across the River: The incredible story of one man’s will to survive the Holocaust by Zvi Wiesenfeld
Yankel’s simple life is upended when the Nazis invade Romania in this biographical novel. As the fascist dictator Ion Antonescu imposes increasingly ruthless antisemitic edicts, the horrors of the Holocaust are visited on Romania’s...
Save my Children: An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero by Leon Kleiner, Edwin Stepp
An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make...
