Recommended Reading

Horwitz examines the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi world view. He explores ghetto life from the perspectives and actions of the Łódź Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered ghetto affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city.

A deep dive into the lives of 10 heroic individuals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

This is a biography of Varian Fry, the first American recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations. While on a secret mission in Marseilles, Fry helped 1,500 European writers, painters, and scientists, many of them Jews, escape from Southern France into Spain.

This book tells the story of Jewish survivors who pioneered Holocaust research in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Nazi Terror tackles a central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship — terror. The Nazis did not rule by terror, and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus of Nazi Germany employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime.

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist 2023.