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Children’s Outrunning the Nazis: The Brave Escape of Resistance Fighter Sven Somme Matt Chandler
Children’s We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman
Nonfiction The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown; Jessica Setbon, trans.
Essay An Introduction to Jan Karski by Joshua MuravchikFew individuals risked more to try to save the Jews from the Holocaust than Jan Karski, and yet what makes his actions most amazing was that the cause of… Joshua Muravchik April 17, 2015
Essay Out of Hiding Earlier this week, Richard Dean Rosen wrote about how he came to write his recently published book, Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors.… Richard Dean Rosen February 4, 2015
Essay Doreen Rappaport Speaks on Holocaust Remembrance Day by Michal Hoschander MalenDoreen Rappaport, author of numerous highly acclaimed books for children and young adults, spoke on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Great… Michal Hoschander Malen November 6, 2014