Bau: Artist at War by Joseph Bau
A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration camps...
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Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba by Alan Twigg
Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes — the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944,...
The Devil’s Castle by Susanne Paola Antonetta
Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today The Devil’s Castle delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue...
Isabela’s Way by Barbara Stark-Nemon
For fans of Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea, this coming-of-age tale of one fourteen-year-old girl’s escape from early-seventeenth-century Portugal’s Inquisition, achieved with the help of a clandestine band of allies, will thrill and...
Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe Cohen
Emi Watanabe Cohen’s sophomore novel travels from the most awkward surface tensions to the beautiful depths of Jewish culture and lore for a tale of magical and emotional discovery. On the same day Faye’s...
Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman
A son returns home to his dying mother to discover the astonishing truth of his origins and the secrets of a woman whose life and wisdom he is only beginning to understand When Evan,...
A Teddy Bear for Emily – And President Roosevelt, Too by Nancy Churnin
Illustrator: Bethany Stancliffe Discover the fascinating true story of Jewish immigrants who played a key role in the creation of the beloved teddy bear, connecting their humble Brooklyn candy shop to the President of...
Radical Sisters by Judith L. Pearson
Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement There was a time when women’s health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn’t discussed. There...
Banned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences by Brigit Young
Perfect for fans of Star Fish and From the Desk of Zoe Washington, a nuanced middle grade from the author of The Prettiest about two girls―one “bad” and one “good”―who join forces against book banning and censorship. Rose is a...
Lily’s Hong Kong Honey Cake by Erica Lyons
Illustrator: Bonnie Pang Based on the history of Jewish refugees in Asia and spanning multiple years during World War II, this picture book shows how some creativity, adaptability, and a lot of love can...
