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Recommended Reading Ten Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 4, 2024
Nonfiction Escape from Dachau: A True Story of Survival, Courage, and a Daring Escape in the Face of Unthinkable Evil Kathe Mueller Slonim
Nonfiction Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans.
Nonfiction The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation Roger Moorehouse
Interview How to Tell an Essential Story: A Conversation with Steve Sheinkin Emily Schneider February 8, 2024
Nonfiction The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust Elizabeth B. White Joanna Sliwa
Fiction Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II: A Graphic Novel Ralph Shayne; Tatiana Goldberg, illus.
Children’s Harboring Hope: The True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark’s Jews Escape the Nazis Susan Hood