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Recommended Reading Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterToday marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Read about the Polish tribute here and learn more about the Warsaw… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 19, 2013
Nonfiction Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Samuel D. Kassow
Nonfiction Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Moshe Arens
Children’s Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak; Emma Harris, trans.
Nonfiction The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive Catalogue and Guide Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epstein, eds.
Recommended Reading Irena Sendler Reading List Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIrena Sendler is one of the “Other Schindlers.” During World War II she helped create over 3,000 false documents to help… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 18, 2011
Essay Testifying for the Holocaust Last week, Deborah Lipstadt wrote about eerie anniversaries and Hannah Arendt. Her posts have been appearing as a part of Jewish Book… Deborah E. Lipstadt May 2, 2011
Recommended Reading Icon of Loss Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe touching, haunting paintings by Samuel Bak, inspired by the little boy from the famous Stroop Report photo taken in the Warsaw… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 1, 2009