Reich to Israel: A Nazi Guard’s Journey from Auschwitz to Redemption in the Promised Land by Avi Strauss is a historical fiction story taking place during World War II and after. Mr. Strauss is an author writing about the Jewish history and […]
The Wolves We Feed (Book 1 of The Path to the Mists of Oblivion) by Stein J. Rubach is an ambitious historical fiction family saga taking place in pre-World War I Europe. Mr. Rubach is a Norwegian author, this is his first […]
About: The Jewish Hospital by Jonathan Hammel is tells about the only Jewish hospital to remain operational in Nazi Berlin. Mr. Hammel, a physician, used the experience of his grandmother to write this historical novel. My rating for The Jewish Hospital – […]
The contrast between the romanticized ideals which he was taught, and the experience of a country torn by a civil war an interesting aspect of the book
While the book started slowly, I thought the insights into life at Theresienstadt were well written, and the character studies were very interesting
The parrot of a young Jewish refugee constantly rattles off numbers in German. There’s much speculation about the numbers, and than a murder happeneds
The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena also deals with issues of identity, as many immigrants do. Are they Argentina? Polish? Polish-Argentinian? Jewish?
I enjoyed the interaction between Ingrid and David. I thought that plot device worked well to personalize the events, & also to highlight the history
Billy Boyle finds himself answering a personal request from his old friend Sergeant Jackson who is now part of the all-African American 617th Tank Destroyers
Events leading up and after D-Day (Jan-Sept 1944) seeing through the eyes of Eisenhower, the Rommel, Bradley, Patton, von Rundstedt and ordinary soldiers
