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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

My Bridges of Hope

Follow-up to I Have Lived A Thousand Years. Ms. Bitton-Jackson chronicles the first few years of her and her mother’s release from Auschwitz.

The Sunflower

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 […]

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Birthday gift from Camille and Andrew & Co. Thanks guys! Bio-medical futuristic young adult thriller.

Mischling, Second Degree

I haven’t read this perspective yet. Ms. Koehn is a “mischling, second degree” [which is the Nazi designation for someone with one Jewish grandparent]. This impacts her profoundly because her maternal grandparents force her mother to divorce her father (who has a Jewish parent) and get sole custody of Ilse for the war. Ms. Koehn […]

Rescue

A Place To Hide