Tracey from A Book Sanctuary read Nancy Wake:  The Inspiring Story of One of the War’s Greatest Heroines by Peter Fitzsimmons for the WWII reading challenge.  Here’s a little of what she had to say: I appreciated all the details of her early life...

Lorri from Jew Wishes reviewed The Sunflower:  On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal.  Here’s an excerpt: Jews are not responsible for forgiving an act committed against others, but are only able to forgive acts...

The Apple by Penelope J. Holt is a “creative nonfiction” book that tells the story of Herman Rosenblat, a Holocaust survivor whose story of first meeting his wife as she passed apples to him through the fence of a concentration camp generated a lot of...

Lorri from Jew Wishes reviewed The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick earlier this year.  Here’s an excerpt: What exactly does the title imply? The Biblical Book of Lamentations and its poems describe the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the...

Kathy from Bermudaonion’s Weblog read A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps by Benny Grunfeld (with Magnus Henrekson and Olle Hager) for the WWII reading challenge.  Here’s an excerpt from her review: I’ve read several other stories of surviving the...