Tag: Book & Author

Against her grandmother’s wishes, award-winning author Silvia Foti made a promise to her mother on her deathbed to write a book about Jonas Noreika, her grandfather, a famous WWII hero. She had no idea that her seemingly simple promise would uncover dark family secrets. Foti’s discoveries would bring her to a personal crisis, challenge her Catholic faith, unearth Holocaust denial,… Read More

The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France shares years of author James McAuley’s research on the lives and collections of prominent 19th century Jewish families leading up to World War II, challenging the psychology of collecting within the context of the war. Join us for an in-depth conversation and… Read More

In her latest book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II, author and professor Leah Garrett details how a unit of young German and Austrian Jewish refugees escaped the Nazis, made their way to England, and and became an elite commando troop that participated in major World War II battles. Join us us in conversation… Read More

During the Holocaust, 59 members of Siggi B. Wilzig’s family were killed, including his parents and all but one of his siblings. When he arrived in the U.S. at 21 years old in 1947, he vowed three things: to never go hungry again, to support Jewish people, and to speak out against injustice. A true… Read More

As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case, interviewing Mengele’s victims, visiting the scenes of his crimes, and ultimately holding his bones in his hands. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources, Marwell, in… Read More

In 2009, Wendy Lower, acclaimed author and historian, was shown a horrific photograph of a Jewish family that revealed seldom-discussed aspects of the Nazis’ genocidal ideology. This rare evidence of open-air shootings in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, where Germans and their co-conspirators massacred Jews in broad daylight, inspired a relentless decade of research, interviews, and discovery. These efforts… Read More

Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure shares the incredible story of how Menachem Kaiser, the grandson of Holocaust Survivors, fought to reclaim his family’s property in Sosnowiec, Poland. In doing so, he makes a shocking discovery: not only did his grandfather’s cousin survive the war, but also penned a memoir while he was… Read More

The turmoil of World War II did not end with German surrender: millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany, a nation in ruins. British and American soldiers gathered the refugees and attempted to repatriate them, but after exhaustive… Read More

The hidden resistance efforts of Jewish women in ghettos during Nazi occupation are one of the most extraordinary and often-overlooked stories about World War II and the Holocaust. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, the soon to be released book already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… Read More

Community Partners: The Selfhelp Home; St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum; Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo; William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. Why did ordinary people choose to follow Hitler? It remains one of the many haunting questions asked in the aftermath of the Holocaust.  How is it that millions of people came to accept and… Read More