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    Holocaust

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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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    Fic­tion
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    Weina Dai Randel
    Cover of The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
    Non­fic­tion
    The Diary Keep­ers: World War II in the Nether­lands, as Writ­ten by the Peo­ple Who Lived Through It 
    Nina Sie­gal
    Cover of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
    Non­fic­tion
    Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust 
    Ari Joskow­icz
    Essay

    Sex and the Sur­vivor: Elie Wiesel’s ​“Day” and a Con­tem­po­rary Woman Writer

    Court­ney Sender
    March 15, 2023
    Interview

    ‘A Sense of Home’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nifer Rosner

    Jai Chakrabar­ti
    March 13, 2023
    Cover of Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents
    Non­fic­tion
    After­math: Com­ing of Age on Three Continents
    Annette Libeskind Berkovits
    Cover of The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression
    Non­fic­tion
    The Absent Moon: A Mem­oir of a Short Child­hood and a Long Depression
    Luiz Schwarcz; Eric M. B. Becker, trans.
    Cover of The Number on Your Forearm is Blue Like Your Eyes
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    The Num­ber on Your Fore­arm is Blue Like Your Eyes
    Eva Umlauf with Stefanie Oswalt; Shelley Frisch, trans.
    Cover of Return to Latvia
    Non­fic­tion
    Return to Latvia
    Marina Jarre; Ann Goldstein, trans.
    Cover of In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
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    In the Gar­den of the Right­eous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Richard Hurowitz
    Essay

    A Diary Archive in Ams­ter­dam Offers a Trove of Untold Stories

    Nina Sie­gal
    February 20, 2023
    Essay

    The Gasp and the Ques­tions: The Inspi­ra­tion for ​‘Code Name Sapphire’

    Pam Jenoff
    February 6, 2023
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    The Island of Extra­or­di­nary Cap­tives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Intern­ment Camp
    Simon Park­er
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    Invit­ed to Life: Find­ing Hope after the Holocaust
    B. A. Van Sise
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    Excerpt — Invit­ed to Life: Find­ing Hope after the Holocaust

    B. A. Van Sise
    January 23, 2023
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