In his new book 'Fatherland,' Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France - but that's not the whole story
While promoting her debut novel, Martha Hall Kelly met 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt and promised to keep her story, and the trials of others like her, alive
‘Invited to Life’ by B.A. Van Sise takes a new approach to survivor testimony, showing how people who endured terrible evil rebuilt lives and pursued their dreams in a new country
Targeted books by Jewish authors include Judy Blume's coming-of-age 'Forever' and Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' about boy whose dad is killed on 9/11
The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in 'Night Angels'
With 'Invited to Life,' photographer Van Sise acknowledges the tragedy his subjects went through but focuses on their postwar successes pursuing hobbies, careers, love and family
John Boyne orients 'All the Broken Places' towards adults rather than children, while deflecting criticism for getting facts wrong and sympathizing with Germans over Jews
Amendment allows criminal penalty for providing 'explicit sexual material' to students; Holocaust books often included in bans initiated by right-wing groups
After her father's death, Suzette Sheft realized the importance of recording family history, and passes the lesson on with surreal nonfiction work 'Running for Shelter,' out Nov. 9
Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'
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