Recommended Reading

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist 2023.

As a baby Agnes Grunwald-Spier was saved from Auschwitz by an unknown official. In this book she retells the stories of 30 individuals who rescued Jews, giving new insight into why these individuals risked so much for their fellow men and women.

Until the Nazi invasion, Warsaw was the home of Europe's largest Jewish community. Resistance is the full story of the Jews' attempts to fight the Nazis, revealed by dramatic excerpts from diaries, letters, and other documents of the period.

WHY did a great nation like Germany elevate the scum of its own people to power, and then follow them into the abyss? Few questions in the history of the past century have been more thoroughly explored or contentiously debated. An astonishing memoir, written decades ago and only now making its appearance, freshly illuminates this gnawing enigma.

Explores Heinrich Himmler's master plan for Europe and how the half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens who fought for the Third Reich were part of this plan.

This book tells the story of the small French village of Le Chambon and how they saved 5,000 Jews and other refugees during the Holocaust.