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Essay The Gasp and the Questions: The Inspiration for ‘Code Name Sapphire’ Pam Jenoff February 6, 2023
Essay ‘Invisible Years’: Piecing Together My Family’s Story of Survival Daphne Geismar August 2, 2021
Children’s Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place Barbara Lowell, Valentina Toro (illus.)
Nonfiction The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory Roxane van Iperen
Nonfiction Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II Robert Matzen (auth.), Luca Doti (foreward)
Nonfiction Invisible Years: A Family’s Collected Account of Separation and Survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands Daphne Geismar
Nonfiction The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews Bernard Wasserstein
Nonfiction The Dynamics of Becoming Orthodox: Dutch Jewish Women Returning to Judaism and How Their Mothers Felt about It Minny E. Mock-Degen
Nonfiction Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Nonfiction The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski