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Nonfiction Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz Thomas Harding
Nonfiction How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism Benjamin Ginsberg
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Children’s A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Fiction The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard Patrick Hicks
Nonfiction Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child’s Survival in the Partisans Miriam M. Brysk; Michael Barenbaum, intro.
Nonfiction Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis Tim Townsend