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Elaine Elinson Elaine Elinson is coauthor of the award-winning Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. Reviews Nonfiction Ninette’s War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France John Jay Nonfiction Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement Judith L. Pearson Nonfiction The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood Nina Willner Nonfiction I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger Nonfiction The Survivor: How I Made it Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter Josef Lewkowicz Nonfiction The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music Roxanne de Bastion Nonfiction One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport Barbara Winton Nonfiction Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape Arthur J. Magida Nonfiction The Ghost Tattoo Tony Bernard Nonfiction Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust Robin Judd Nonfiction Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans. Nonfiction The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance Rebecca Clarren Nonfiction Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter Rachel Shteir Nonfiction The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans. Nonfiction Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome Fredric Brandfon
Nonfiction Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement Judith L. Pearson
Nonfiction The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood Nina Willner
Nonfiction I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger
Nonfiction The Survivor: How I Made it Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter Josef Lewkowicz
Nonfiction The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music Roxanne de Bastion
Nonfiction One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport Barbara Winton
Nonfiction Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape Arthur J. Magida
Nonfiction Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans.
Nonfiction Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome Fredric Brandfon