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    Claire Rudin

    Claire Rudin is a retired direc­tor of the New York City school library sys­tem and for­mer librar­i­an at the Holo­caust Resource Cen­ter and Archives in Queens, NY. She is the author of The School Librar­i­an’s Source­book and Chil­dren’s Books About the Holocaust.
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    Aharon Megged
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    Eleanor Widmer
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    Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki; Alice Herz-Sommer, fwd.
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    Wendy Werris
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