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    The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

    Meryl Frank
    June 26, 2023
    Cover of The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
    Non­fic­tion
    The Last Con­so­la­tion Van­ished: The Tes­ti­mo­ny of a Son­derkom­man­do in Auschwitz
    Zalmen Gradowski; Rubye Monet, trans.
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    It’s Her Sto­ry: Ire­na Sendler
    Margaret Littman; Sara Luna, illus.
    Cover of Poland, A Green Land
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    Poland, A Green Land
    Aharon Appelfeld; Stu­art Schoff­man, trans.
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    Poet­ry
    Once, This For­est Belonged to a Storm
    Austen Leah Rose
    Essay

    Elie Wiesel: Torch­bear­er for Holo­caust Survivors

    Joseph Berg­er
    May 28, 2023
    Cover of Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
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    Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a For­bid­den Book, and a Search for Life in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Meryl Frank
    Essay

    Buried Mem­o­ries of the Holo­caust in Italy

    Fredric Brand­fon
    May 8, 2023
    Essay

    The Jew Who Posed as a Nazi: A Writer Nav­i­gates Con­flict­ing Identities

    Roslyn Bern­stein
    April 27, 2023
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    Visu­al Arts
    New Voic­es: Con­tem­po­rary Writ­ers Con­fronting the Holocaust 
    Matthew Silverman and Howard Debs, eds. 
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    Hero­ines, Res­cuers, Rab­bis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust
    Sarah Sil­ber­stein Swartz
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    Read­ing Poet­ry for Yom HaShoah

    JBC Staff
    April 17, 2023
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    We Sur­vived the Holo­caust: The Bluma and Felix Gold­berg Story
    Frank W. Baker; Tim Ogline, illus.
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    The Librar­i­an of Auschwitz: The Graph­ic Novel
    Salva Rubio; Loreto Aroca, illus.
    Cover of Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
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    Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Mur­der, and the Hijack­ing of History
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Excerpt — Hon­ey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birke­­nau Survivors

    Maria Zalews­ka, Auschwitz-Birke­nau Memo­r­i­al Foundation 
    April 3, 2023
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