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When asked about the best Holocaust books for teens, curators at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, pointed to Wiesel’s 1960 account of surviving Nazi death camps as a teenager.
American children reading this book might be startled to learn about the segregation, the yellow stars, and the rules prohibiting even such things as ice-skating for the Jewish children.
Instead of the more well-known Holocaust books such as The Diary of Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel — which are, of course, critical reads — you may not have heard of the books below.
Liesbeth Heenk speaks at Rodeph Shalom on the importance of Holocaust memoirs amidst rising antisemitism globally.
These books circulated at Brandeis for decades. A trove of Holocaust history was hidden in the pages. As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as ‘material ...
Now, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, Yad Vashem is inaugurating its Book of Names — a monumental installation containing the names of 4,800,000 victims of the Shoah ...
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Koestler’s holocaust was also that of much of European civilization, and Koestler has already borne eloquent witness to it in half a dozen political novels (The Gladiators, Darkness at Noon) and ...
Author hopes book helps honor Polish woman's heroism, patriotism NDN: Is there a plan — by you or your co-author or anyone else — to seek further recognition for her, say with a medal or ...
A local author wrote and published a book to preserve his friends’ memories of the Holocaust. But at least one local school district fears it’s too graphic to be widely used.
We asked Tina Ferguson, owner of Face in a Book bookstore, for recommendations on books for children of all ages to learn more about the Holocaust. Here are Tina's picks: Tina Ferguson ...