International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 : Nine New BooksLike this list

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• In the Garden of the Righteous

  the Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

  Hurowitz, Richard,

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  "Six years ago, Hurowitz began publishing in The Octavian Report, the digital quarterly magazine he founded, articles about individuals who rescued Jewish people during World War II. Some of those stories of "righteous Gentiles," including an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Holocaust

  An Unfinished History

  Stone, Dan, 1971-

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  "A significant new history of the Holocaust from the director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway. Stone, a professor of modern history and author of The Liberation of the Camps, emphasizes that we must stop thinking about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Counterfeit Countess

  the Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

  White, Elizabeth B.,

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  "Historians White and Sliwa (Jewish Childhood in Kraków) deliver a powerful biography of Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg (1905–1969), who posed as a Catholic aristocrat during WWII and joined the Polish resistance. Born to a “life of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovers in Auschwitz

  a True Story

  Blankfeld, Keren,

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  "Journalist Blankfeld debuts with a page-turning account of the unlikely love story between David Wisnia, a Polish Jew from the Warsaw ghetto, and Zippi Spitzer, a Jew from Slovakia, that blossomed amidst the horror of Auschwitz. The two met during…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saints and Liars

  the Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees From the Nazis

  Dwork, Deborah,

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  "Award-winning Dwork (director of CUNY Ctr. for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity; Holocaust: A History) focuses on the lives of American citizens who travelled all over the world to assist victims of Nazi Germany.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Survivor

  How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

  Lewkowicz, Josef,

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  "The amazing, untold story of the Holocaust from a survivor turned Nazi hunter. No one expected the Nazis to arrive with such speed, and without a shot being fired. But when they entered Kraków in 1939, Josef Lewkowicz's life was obliterated as he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paris Undercover

  a Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

  Goodman, Matthew,

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  "Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it-a memoir that was built on lies. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two Sisters

  Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime France

  Whitehouse, Rosie,

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  "Journalist Whitehouse (The People on the Beach) delivers a heartrending account of her mother-in-law's experiences during the Holocaust. Huguette Müller and her sister, Marion, escaped the Nazis with the help of a French doctor named Frédéric Pétri…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Irena's Gift

  An Epic World War II Memoir of Sisters, Secrets and Survival

  Kirsten, Karen,

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  "In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation