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1 - One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

MICHAEL FRANK - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom...
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2 - Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After

Jane Yolen - Holy Cow! Press

Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow. In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed. In her new gathering of sixty poems, award-winning author Jane Yolen gives us a feminist view of Biblical themes and personalities such as Eve, Sarah, David...
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3 - The Memory Monster

Yishai Sarid - Restless Books

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland...
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4 - House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Hadley Freeman - Simon & Schuster

Writer Hadley Freeman investigates her familys secret history in this "exceptional" (The Washington Post) "masterpiece" (The Daily Telegraph) uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived...
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5 - When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Ariana Neumann - Scribner

In this astonishing story that "reads like a thriller and is so, so timely" (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: "Like Anne Frank's diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard" (BOOKLIST , starred review) .In 1941,...
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