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About: The Blacksmith of Dachau by Elaine Hume-Peaks is a historical fiction novel which is both haunting and hopeful. Ms. Hume-Peake was born in Aberdeen Proving Ground where her father, Captain Edward Hume learned the art of bomb disposal and diffused many […]
About: The Man from Barbarossa by John Gardner is the 1999 entry in the James Gardner James Bond series. This book is more of a return to traditional spy craft than a fantastic supervillain story. My rating for The Man from Barbarossa– 5Buy The Man […]
The Forgotten Names is a historical fiction story of a woman who is trying to find the original names of Jewish kids in France who were hidden from the Nazis
Night by Ellie Wiesel is a memoir of the author’s experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people have attempted to help them save those children
Twelve thought-provoking stories in ‘The Archivists’ by an award-winning author. Exploring life-altering events, from crumbling connections to a pandemic
Benghazi-Bergen-Belsen (בנגאזי–ברגן־בלזן ) Yossi Sucary tells of the plight of North African and Libyan Jews during World War II
I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would. However, I could not shake the feeling that the author was writing for the screen, and not for a book
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is an engrossing book. I was fascinated by two aspects of the book, the role of business in the killing, and Nazi hunters
A small, but significant slice of history. The village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon became part of a wide network to rescue Jews from the Nazi killing machine
