Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife. Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textu...
Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals ...
Guy WaltersAlready acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); "a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting...
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
Nechama TecThe true story of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II, this book is the basis of a movie starring Daniel Craig that will be released December 12, 2008.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on th...
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann is a classic examination of evil from one of the great philosophers of the twentieth century.
The Light of Days CD: The Untold Stor...
Judy BatalionOne of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who be...
A Good Place to Hide: How One French ...
Peter GroseThe untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II. Nobody asked questions; nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrast...
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of...
Heather Dune MacadamOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently wav...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Brave...
Witold PileckiIn 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. H...