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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
Nonfiction Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940 – 1945 Marion A. Kaplan
Nonfiction Jewish Refugees in Switzerland During the Holocaust: A Memoir of Childhood and History Frieda Johles Forman
Nonfiction Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War Muriel R. Gillick