Book Review - Irena's Children - The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - A True Story of Courage - Tilar J. Mazzeo - Gallery Books, New York, 2016 *** I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this is the first one I have read which centers...
An Informal Book Review - His Truth is Marching On - John Lewis and the Power of Hope – Jon Meacham – Random House, New York, 2020 First Things First - The Acquisition - the Gift - of this Book John Lewis has had a strong, significant, and lasting influence upon my life for about a half-century...
Into the Arms of Strangers - Stories of the Kindertransport *** Introduction Summary and legacy statement of this book from the back dust cover of the book: The documentary film, Into the Arms of Strangers, reminded the world of this chapter of Holocaust history. The movie went on to win the...
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna” This posting is not so much a formal book review as it is a personal meditation on “The Book Smugglers”. This book spoke volumes and...
Boiled Eggs, Fresh Flowers, Chicken Fat, & An Old Cat Not Pictured Even though I write fiction and nonfiction, I primarily read history - good history that focuses on persons and presents the human element, the pathos, suffering, evil and good, very intimate moments, or just minute details...
I Only Wanted to Live I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this book is unique and important in many ways. Written a few years ago entirely by the author, now in his eighties, the book is based on his memories of the Holocaust as a boy between the ages of about seven through...
The Auschwitz Album, A Book Based Upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier – Text by Peter Hellman – Random House, New York – 1981 The Last Album, Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau – Ann Weiss – W.W. Norton & Company - New York, London - 2001 The...
I am a member of a weekly zoom Sunday Sermon Discussion group through a church I am mainly only able to participate with online. One discussion we had was on Jesus as the center of our faith and hope. A part of this discussion included the seemingly pervasive infiltration of “Christian...