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Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
Nonfiction Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from WWI Warsaw and My Quest to Follow Deborah Tannen
Children’s Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Children’s Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto Irene Cohen-Janca Maurizio Quarello, illus.
Nonfiction The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939 – 1945 Wladyslaw Szpilman
Essay A Ghetto in the Middle of a City Yesterday, Gwen Edelman wrote about a recent visit to Warsaw. Her most recent novel, The Train to Warsaw (Grove Press), is now available. She will be blogging here… Gwen Edelman April 24, 2014
Essay In My Characters’ Shoes Gwen Edelman’s first novel, War Story, was translated into eight languages, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, and was a Koret Jewish Book Award… Gwen Edelman April 23, 2014
Nonfiction The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust Karen Auerbach
