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Nonfiction Sidonia’s Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America Hanna Perlstein Marcus
Nonfiction Road To Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation Aili and Andres McConnon
Nonfiction Judgment Before Nuremberg: The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crime Trial Greg Dawson
Nonfiction You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish Susan Resnick
Recommended Reading Holocaust Remembrance Day Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterHolocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) begins this evening and we’ve compiled a short reading list, including titles for adults and… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 18, 2012
Nonfiction Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki; Alice Herz-Sommer, fwd.
Nonfiction A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor Caroline Stoessinger
Nonfiction 1111 Days in My Life Plus Four Ephraim F. Sten; Moshe Dor, trans.; Foreword by Myra Sklarew
Nonfiction Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed Leslie Maitland
Children’s The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story Peter Lane Taylor; Christos Nicola