New Jewish Books
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
