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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
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Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
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Nazism and War
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
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Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >
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A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $5.50
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is... Read more >
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $5.50
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is... Read more >
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Letters from Nuremberg
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
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Hitler's Private Library
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
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Hitler's Private Library
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
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After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
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Behind Enemy Lines
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Written by Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine, her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule... Read more >
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Written by Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine, her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule... Read more >
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Justice at Dachau
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Written by Joshua Greene
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.00
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration... Read more >
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Written by Joshua Greene
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.00
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration... Read more >
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Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
A major contribution to the history of the Holocaust from the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen--the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet... Read more >
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
A major contribution to the history of the Holocaust from the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen--the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet... Read more >
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A Moral Reckoning
The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
From the internationally renowned author of the best-selling Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust comes this penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust that goes beyond anything previously written on the subject.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the... Read more >
The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
From the internationally renowned author of the best-selling Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust comes this penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust that goes beyond anything previously written on the subject.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the... Read more >
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The Nuremberg Interviews
Written by Leon Goldensohn
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a... Read more >
Written by Leon Goldensohn
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a... Read more >
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Witnesses of War
Children's Lives Under the Nazis
Written by Nicholas Stargardt
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Already hailed as “magnificent . . . some of the best historical writing about the aftermath of the war I have ever read . . . stunning” (The Guardian), Witnesses of War breaks new ground in its exploration of the lives and the fate of children of all nationalities under the... Read more >
Children's Lives Under the Nazis
Written by Nicholas Stargardt
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Already hailed as “magnificent . . . some of the best historical writing about the aftermath of the war I have ever read . . . stunning” (The Guardian), Witnesses of War breaks new ground in its exploration of the lives and the fate of children of all nationalities under the... Read more >
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Written by Bernice Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $19.99
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about... Read more >
Written by Bernice Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $19.99
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about... Read more >
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Letters from Nuremberg
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd and Lary Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd and Lary Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
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A Stranger in the Land
Written by Daniel Cil Brecher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $15.95
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter.
in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the Israeli army, refuses to cross into occupied Lebanon to deliver a morale-boosting lecture to Israeli troops fighting there... Read more >
Written by Daniel Cil Brecher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $15.95
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter.
in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the Israeli army, refuses to cross into occupied Lebanon to deliver a morale-boosting lecture to Israeli troops fighting there... Read more >
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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