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Holocaust memoir

Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer are the co-authors of 'Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust.'(Rutgers University Press via JTA)
April 22, 2026, 4:11 pm
Son of Holocaust survivors and granddaughter of a Nazi confront their separate inheritances
Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer forge unlikely partnership to pen ‘Inheritance,’ a memoir about his family’s harrowing escape from the death machine her grandfather was committed to
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Liesbeth Heenk at a Holocaust Survivor Conference in Paris, October 2025 (Courtesy)
April 14, 2026, 1:13 pm
Who still reads Holocaust stories? A publisher sees shifting trends after October 7
Demand for Holocaust memoirs is falling amid rising antisemitism and changing consumer patterns. A non-Jewish Dutch woman has made it her mission to keep survivors’ voices on shelves
By Zev Stub
Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 14, 2026, 8:48 am
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it
Updated English translation of Vladka Meed’s 1948 Yiddish memoir, ‘On Both Sides of the Wall,’ breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ninette (left) and Viviane Dreyfus with Edgar outside the Martinez Hotel in Marseille, where ‘Tout Paris’ exiles gathered to exchange wartime gossip. (Courtesy of John Jay and Lady Swaythling and her family)
January 31, 2026, 7:33 am
Nazi-era teen girl’s diary charts unraveling of France — and her prominent Jewish family
Released in the UK on Jan. 22, ‘Ninette’s War’ by journalist John Jay examines darkest chapter in French history through a Dreyfus scion’s diary entries, family papers and interviews
By Robert Philpot
Leo Borger's shop selling radios and musical instruments on Vienna’s Landstrasse Haupstrasse, in 1933, prior to being 'Aryanized' in the lead-up to the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
May 31, 2025, 10:16 am
Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history
Julian Borger traced his father’s escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir
By Robert Philpot
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Etta Shiber, seen in a publicity photo for the 1943 book 'Paris-Underground,' and Kate Bonnefous, shown in 1940, were friends and unlikely heroes of the early French resistance. (Courtesy Ballantine Books via JTA)
March 12, 2025, 6:08 am
Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
In ‘Paris Undercover,’ author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful ‘memoir’ that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Adolf 'Dolu' Finkelstein with Lusia Finkelstein in Lwow, in the mid-1930s. (Finkelstein Family Collection)
August 26, 2023, 9:59 am
Caught between Hitler and Stalin, one family’s miraculous tale of survival
In ‘Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad,’ journalist and politician Daniel Finkelstein tells of his forebears’ separate grim escapes from gulags and Nazi camps before settling in the UK
By Robert Philpot
Pick-Goslar survived to have three children, 11 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. (Eric Sultan/The Lonka Project via JTA)
June 19, 2023, 2:28 am
In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival
In ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank,’ the late Hannah Pick-Goslar talks about how she grew up with the future icon and their brief reunion at Bergen-Belsen during Frank’s last days
By Shira Li Bartov
Louis Hofmann (as Cioma Schönhaus) and Luna Wedler (as Gerda) in 'The Forger.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
March 15, 2023, 6:02 am
How a young Jewish man with a talent for forgery hid in plain sight in WWII Berlin
Now playing in the US, the German-language feature film ‘The Forger’ recounts true-life story of the spirited Cioma Schönhaus, who created documents that saved hundreds of lives
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Detail from 'Portrait of Stella' by artist Maira Kalman, from 'One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World' by Michael Frank (Avid Reader Press)
December 29, 2022, 12:26 am
99-year-old Holocaust survivor is a final portal into vibrant life of prewar Rhodes
In ‘One Hundred Saturdays,’ Stella Levi shares with author Michael Frank her memories of centuries-old traditions of the Aegean island’s Sephardic community destroyed by the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Yelena Lembersky, author of 'Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2022, 1:43 am
Relics of a USSR both maddening and sweet emerge in blockbuster Jewish memoir
Yelena Lembersky’s ‘Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour’ is a surprisingly even-handed tale of escape from the Iron Curtain with her grandfather’s famous Babyn Yar massacre paintings
By Julie Masis
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and Dov Forman, authors of 'Lily's Promise.' (Courtesy)
November 5, 2021, 3:09 pm
Keeping a vow to tell her tale, Auschwitz survivor becomes TikTok sensation
Lily Ebert, author of the new memoir ‘Lily’s Promise,’ and her great-grandson Dov Forman have gained millions of social media followers, and their posts have over 100 million views
By Robert Philpot
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