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People across Europe, Israel and the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday to commemorate the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany. The day was created in 2005 by the United Nations to sustain public awareness, which studies show has rapidly declined in recent years. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro shows one creative attempt to educate younger generations.
It's time for our annual mock Caldecott vote!
The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.
Spencertown Academy Arts Center will host the 2021 Virtual Festival of Books, online, Oct 7-31. The festival, now in its 16th year, will host a variety of author-led talks over
'Nicky & Vera' by Peter Sis (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Company); Holocaust-era hero Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Czech children from the Nazi invasion. (AP/Petr David Josek, File) When Vera, a young Jewish girl, was growing up outside of Prague in 1938, she had little on her mind besides her grandmother and love of animals. But her blissful childhood would change forever with the emerging crisis brought about by her country’s neighbor, Nazi Germany. When Vera’s parents learned about an opportunity for Jewish children to escape to the United Kingdom organized by an Englishman named ...