The book is certainly worth reading, we should not be losing this kind of history, and future generations of the author’s family will have something that many others wish they did.
The author follows several people throughout the book, some famous, some well-known, and others are just trudging day to day trying to survive.
Joseph Pulitzer (10 April, 1847 – 29 October, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, as well as a Congressman.
Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein is a novel about the daughter of a high ranking Nazi officer who falls in love with a Jewish boy during World War II
A historical fiction book about Friedrich Richard, a fictional man who, during WWI befriended Adolf Hitler, nicknamed the Wolf, and ties his fortunes with him
More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine by Nicholas Blincoe traces the history of soccer in this small region of the world.
Apeirogon by Colum McCann is an extraordinary book, contemporary –historical-fiction of an Israeli man and a Palestinian man, both who lost young daughters
Lux by Elizabeth Cook – a retelling of Books 1 & 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, the story of King David, how it applied to King Henry VIII, and poet Thomas Wyatt
Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis – The true story of Fred Mayer, a Jew born in Germany returns during World War II.
Sholem Asch was a Polish novelist who wrote in Yiddish, including God of Vengeance taking place in a Jewish brothel with Jewish prostitutes, lesbians, and more