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Nonfiction The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris Jonathan Kirsch
Nonfiction The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust Fred Coleman
Nonfiction Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence, 1942 – 1944 Isaac Levendal and Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld, fwd.
Nonfiction Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism Gilya Gerda Schmidt
Nonfiction Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance Eric Brothers; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
Nonfiction Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
Nonfiction Transcending Darkness: A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust Estelle Glaser Laughlin
Nonfiction Granddaughters of the Holocaust: Never Forgetting What They Didn’t Experience Nirit Gradwohl Pisano
Essay From Stanislawow to Beach Music Cliff Graubart is the author of The Curious Vision of Sammy Levitt and Other Stories (Mercer University Press, 2012). He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Cliff Graubart January 7, 2013
Fiction Six Thousand Miles to Home: A Novel Inspired by a True Story of World War II Kim Dana Kupperman