Dining with Squirrels

Uri Orlev hid in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939-1941.  His mother was killed by the Nazis and he survived Bergen-Belsen.  This is actually an adventure tale about Alex, who hides alone in the Ghetto after his father has been taken in a razzia [round-up].  After the endless tales of horror I’ve been reading, it was […]

This really helped me understand how the physical annihilation of so many German Jews happened.  Ms. Kaplan gives a very detailed, supported account of the 10 years in Germany before the war actually started.  The social isolation and devastation of the Jews was well underway.  Could a genocide happen here?  We certainly have the racism […]

What would you do if, as you were slowly dying in a concentration camp, you were summoned to the deathbed of an SS officer who wanted to confess his crimes to a Jew?  This happened to Simon Wiesenthal and the first part of this book is his story.  The second half is a series of […]