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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Holocaust books

Frank W. Baker's book "We Survived the Holocaust," featuring illustrations by Tim Ogline, tells the real-life story of Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg. (Courtesy Imagine and Wonder)
September 11, 2024, 12:10 pm
South Carolina school district bans graphic novel about local Holocaust survivors
Author of ‘We Survived the Holocaust’ says he’s ‘shocked, appalled and dismayed’ as authorities cite new state guidelines on which books are ‘appropriate’ for middle schoolers
By Andrew Lapin
Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)
May 6, 2024, 3:48 am
Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project
Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A very young Elida (left) with Stanislava and her daughter Audra, who hid Elida (renamed Rita) on their farm from late 1943 to the end of the war. (Courtesy of Zipora Klein Jakob)
May 4, 2024, 7:10 am
The amazing true story of a baby illegally born and smuggled out of Kovno ghetto
Elida Freidman Goldberg Katzman changed names, families, countries and continents numerous times as she grappled until her premature death with being a Holocaust orphan from birth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A screen grab from TV show 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 10, 2024, 9:18 am
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ premieres: ‘In the worst of times there’s always hope’
TV show is based on bestselling novel inspired by story of Slovakian Jew Lali Sokolov; features performances by Harvey Keitel, Melanie Lynskey
By Reuters
Janina Mehlberg, seen with her husband Henry Mehlberg, was a Jewish woman who posed as a Polish countess to intervene at Majdanek, the Nazi concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust. (Courtesy: US Holocaust Memorial Museum/via JTA)
February 15, 2024, 1:53 am
A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew
Nearly lost to history, the incredible story of mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg is retold in ‘The Counterfeit Countess’ by historians Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
By Shira Li Bartov
'The Little Liar,' the new novel by bestselling Jewish author Mitch Albom, is set in Salonika, Greece, before, during and after the Holocaust. (Jenny Risher/illustration by Mollie Suss via JTA)
November 18, 2023, 4:27 pm
Jewish writer Mitch Albom enters new territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’
‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ author returns with a powerful story about how a Greek Jewish boy, known for his honesty, becomes a pathological liar after unwittingly helping the Nazis
By Andrew Lapin
'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)
October 4, 2023, 4:24 am
The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw
In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story
By Robert Philpot
Author Martha Hall Kelly and her book 'The Golden Doves.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2023, 2:32 am
With ‘The Golden Doves,’ bestselling author honors a Holocaust survivor and friend
While promoting her debut novel, Martha Hall Kelly met 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt and promised to keep her story, and the trials of others like her, alive
By Lisa Klug
Detail of a photo of Holocaust suvivor Sally Fishberg, left, with granddaughter Hannah, featured in 'Invited to Life,' by B.A. Van Sise. (Courtesy/ B.A. Van Sise)
April 18, 2023, 4:28 pm
Life after hell: Thriving US Holocaust survivors chronicled in photo-driven book
‘Invited to Life’ by B.A. Van Sise takes a new approach to survivor testimony, showing how people who endured terrible evil rebuilt lives and pursued their dreams in a new country
By Jacqueline Cutler
Author Jodi Picoult attends the world premiere of 'My Sister's Keeper' on June 24, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
March 14, 2023, 11:28 am
Jodi Picoult’s Holocaust novel removed as Florida school district purges libraries
Targeted books by Jewish authors include Judy Blume’s coming-of-age ‘Forever’ and Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ about boy whose dad is killed on 9/11
By Andrew Lapin
Ho Feng-Shan poses for a photo taken while he was a Chinese consul in Egypt. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 20, 2023, 4:45 pm
Historical fiction novel about real-life Chinese rescuer of Jews sparks controversy
The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in ‘Night Angels’
By Jordyn Haime
Holocaust survivor and educator Irving Roth and great-granddaughter Addie pose together for 'Invited to Life.' (Courtesy of B.A. Van Sise / Design by Grace Yagel via JTA)
January 28, 2023, 1:57 pm
New portrait collection showcases 90 Holocaust survivors who lived long, full lives
With ‘Invited to Life,’ photographer Van Sise acknowledges the tragedy his subjects went through but focuses on their postwar successes pursuing hobbies, careers, love and family
By Jackie Hajdenberg
John Boyne, author of the Holocaust novel 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' and its sequel 'All the Broken Places.' (Rich Gilligan via JTA/Courtesy of Penguin Random House)
December 6, 2022, 4:08 am
Author has no regrets releasing sequel to controversial ‘Boy in the Striped Pajamas’
John Boyne orients ‘All the Broken Places’ towards adults rather than children, while deflecting criticism for getting facts wrong and sympathizing with Germans over Jews
By Andrew Lapin
School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
November 17, 2022, 9:11 am
Holocaust books, including ‘Maus,’ pulled from some Missouri schools over state law
Amendment allows criminal penalty for providing ‘explicit sexual material’ to students; Holocaust books often included in bans initiated by right-wing groups
By Andrew Lapin
Suzette Sheft (right) with her grandmother Monique Sheft (formerly Inge Eisinger). (Courtesy)
November 9, 2022, 10:25 pm
Teen weaves grandmother’s Holocaust experience into a compelling young adult read
After her father’s death, Suzette Sheft realized the importance of recording family history, and passes the lesson on with surreal nonfiction work ‘Running for Shelter,’ out Nov. 9
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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