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Nonfiction My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Joanie Holzer Schirm
Nonfiction Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway
Nonfiction Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return Margaret McMullan
Nonfiction A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.)
Fiction Six Thousand Miles to Home: A Novel Inspired by a True Story of World War II Kim Dana Kupperman
Nonfiction Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe’s Darkest Hour Simon Kuper
Nonfiction The Pope’s Jews: The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save the Jews from the Nazis Gordon Thomas
Nonfiction Isaac’s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland Matthew Brzezinski