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Nonfiction Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust Ingrid Carlberg; Ebba Segerberg, trans.; Kofi A. Annan, intro.
Essay “Where Should the Story Begin?” The Worlds of Holocaust Graphic Memoirs Earlier this week, Tahneer Oksman traversed the depictions of space in women’s graphic memoirs included in her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and… Tahneer Oksman April 7, 2016
Nonfiction Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps, April 1945 John C. McManus
Interview Interview: Dina Gold with Maron L. WaxmanAmid its account of the legal battle to recover ownership — or at least the recognition of ownership — of the building at Krausenstrasse… Maron L. Waxman March 22, 2016
Nonfiction Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II István Deák; Norman M. Naimark, fwd.
Nonfiction The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial Lawrence Douglas
Nonfiction Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 1930 – 1945 Christoph Kreutzmüller
Nonfiction Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.