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Falmouth Jewish Congregation will host a free, virtual Jewish Book Council author talk to mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Monday, May 6, at 1 PM. The public is

Guts by Raina Telgemeier was the most-popular graphic novel and most-read book

This year’s Cleveland Jewish Book Festival, presented by the Mandel Jewish Community Center in Beachwood, will feature 17 authors through a two-part event that kicks off Nov. 12.

Book review: Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers presents readers with translated excerpts from journals penned principally by seven Dutch diarists, tracking their lives as the five-year German occupation unfolded. 

In 2025, the Dutch will make available to the public a massive data base of more than thirty million documents on accused World War II Nazi collaborators. It includes most of the evidence used in past trials of collaborators “including police reports, witness depositions, material evidence and photos.” The Netherlands is not the first to make such files public. However, the ease of access to the public is new and something that is a cause for both praise and concern.

The Diary Keepers: eyewitness accounts of World War II

The horrors inflicted upon Dutch Jews during the Holocaust were staggeringly evil, nothing short of genocidal. In her riveting book, The Diary Keepers, Nina Siegal lets the people who lived through the darkest period in modern Dutch history tell their own stories as she artfully weaves together in chronological and logical order selected excerpts from nine diaries, collected from more than 2,000 diaries written during the war.

Some Were Written in Worn School Notebooks, or Beautifully Illustrated With Drawings, Maps, and Watercolors. Each Was a Voice That Wanted to Speak, a World of Memory I Wanted to Grasp and Pull Out of the Darkness of the Archives Folders and Into the Modern World

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