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Nonfiction When Europe Was A Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940 – 1941 Otto Schrag and Peter Schrag
Interview Interview: Hana Berger Moran and Wendy Holden by Elise CooperBorn Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope tells the account of Priska, Rachel, and Anka, three… Elise Cooper July 21, 2015
Essay Why I Write Historical Fiction Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the novel Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln and A Master Plan for Rescue as well as a memoir The Russian Word for Snow. She is… Janis Cooke Newman July 13, 2015
Recommended Reading Capturing a Vanished World: Last Folio by Yuri Dojc & Katya Krausova Posted by Becca KantorLast Folio: A Photographic Memory offers a haunting glimpse into the traces of vanished Jewish life in Slovakia, the first country to… Becca Kantor July 2, 2015
Nonfiction Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto Rywka Lipszyc and Anita Friedman
Nonfiction Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope Wendy Holden
Essay How To Ask? Miranda Richmond Mouillot was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She is the author of the recently published book A Fifty-Year Silence: Love War and a Ruined… Miranda Richmond Mouillot June 23, 2015
Children’s Escape In Time: Miri’s Riveting Tale of Her Family’s Survival During World War II Ronit Lowenstein-Malz; Laurie McGaw, illus.; Leora Frankel, trans.
