The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger
Early in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their...
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Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma’s grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger’s parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from...
Why is Great Grandma So Sad? Discovering the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child by Susan Heagy
Though this book is written for children ages 7 to 14, it is also intended for any age of people who have difficulty reading anything having to do with the Holocaust of WWII. This...
Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos
Translator: Liz Szász In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been...
Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time by Dan Soen & Nitza Davidovitch
Shoa and Experience is a collection of essays offering important insights on the nature of Holocaust education with implications for Holocaust education development for future generations, in Israel and worldwide. Special attention is given...
Anne Frank and the Remembering Tree by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Erika Steiskal
In most windows I saw people working and children playing. When the soldiers came, people began covering their windows, so I couldn’t see inside anymore. But the tiny attic window of the narrow brick...
Podcast: Enough with the Holocaust Books for Children!
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features a long and juicy virtual panel discussion about the Holocaust’s place in Jewish children’s literature. It’s called “Enough with...
Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund
Jessica Cohen, translator Beautifully translated from Hebrew, Our Holocaust is a novel narrated by a nameless child of Holocaust survivors. A prizewinner in Israel, it tells the story of relatives who are “collected” by...
Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination by Holli Levitsky & Phil Brown
This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing...
The First to be Destroyed: The Jewish Community of Kleczew and the Beginning of the Final Solution
By Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska, Tomasz Kawski, Witold Medykowski Edited by Tuvia Horev The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next...
