Holocaust

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

One Hundred Saturdays (Avid Reader Press) is, quite simply, essential reading. Award-winning author Michael Frank has distilled six years of conversations between the now ninety-nine-year-old charming raconteur and inspirational Holocaust survivor Stella Levi into a slender yet powerful volume of memories of her life experiences. She was born in 1923…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 6, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Travel “Into the Forest” With a Remarkable Story of Holocaust Survival

Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph and Love (St. Martin's Press) is an important work of nonfiction by award-winning author, editor and journalist Rebecca Frankel. The book centers on Morris and Miriam Rabinowitz who lived in the Polish Zhetel ghetto and other parts of Eastern Europe during…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 10, 2021

Nonfiction

The Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped Nazi Death Marches

Editor's note: This story was originally published on January 24, 2019. BookTrib is running it again for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Dragging himself weakly, he made it to the side of the road. To go to the side of the road meant death. It was a firm rule of the…

Meagan FoyJanuary 27, 2020

Nonfiction

‘The Eves of Our Destruction’: Can Citizens be Ignorant and Free at the Same Time?

As authors, we tend to specialize in writing fiction or nonfiction. A few writers are able to successfully write both entertaining fiction and erudite nonfiction but in a terrible irony, increasingly, our society seems to be so easily manipulated in blurring the distinction. In 1816 in a letter to John…

Roy BerelowitzNovember 3, 2017

Nonfiction

3 Ways I Live from My Deathbed Every Single Day

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 28, 2016

Fiction Romance

A Fairytale Marriage Does Not Come Easy For This Young 1950s Couple

A young wife, whose husband is undergoing treatment for an incurable brain tumor, is befriended by a trio of nuns in a hospital waiting room. Thus begins a friendship that carries the love story of Valerie and Alex. “I fell madly in love with him in high school,” she tells…

Sherri DaleyNovember 12, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Grandmother’s Resurfacing Spurs Woman’s Quest to Find Family Lost in WWII Latvia

Daughters of the Occupation (HarperCollins) by Shelly Sanders is one of the most authentic and profound works of historical fiction I have ever read about World War II and the Holocaust. It is inspired by true events that provide a powerful lesson and a compellingly uplifting story of a fictional…

Linda HitchcockMay 26, 2022

Fiction

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

“Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down ... a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” —Entertainment Weekly — AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK BEGINNING JULY 1 — The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer (Knopf), an incredible, important work of fiction with a touch of humor, is…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 26, 2020

Fiction

Jennifer Rosner Takes Us Inside Gripping “The Yellow Bird Sings”

Emotional, heartbreaking and hopeful, The Yellow Bird Sings (Flatiron Books) by Jennifer Rosner touches the music of your soul. It is 1941 Poland; Roza and Shira, mother and daughter, are Jews, hidden in a barn by farmers. After their family was violently taken from them, they have no choice but…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 3, 2020

Fiction

“The Lost Family” Covers Marriage and Love Post-WWII

Jenna Blum, author of the bestseller Those Who Save Us, is back with another novel, one that is equally heartbreaking and haunting. Covering topics of grief and love, Blum artfully and skillfully reminds us that the past never seems to stay there, and that the repercussions can still be felt decades and…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 16, 2018

Fiction

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947, is a universal classic and perhaps the most powerful, important and tragic account of the Nazi occupation of Holland in the early 1940s. It has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages. Some 1.3 million people visit…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2021

Fiction

The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice

My first book, The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice, is not a book I expected to write. I live an ordinary little life in Connecticut as a publicist, wife and mother. I always imagined writing a romance, maybe, or even a historical fiction, since that’s my…

Deborah Vidas LevisonJune 12, 2018

Fiction

Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress:” Chase for War Camp Guard

An idea for a novel can be sparked by reading about a person who existed in the flesh. That’s what happened when Kate Quinn, author of the breakout bestseller The Alice Network and other historical novels, came across the nonfiction story of Hermine Braunsteiner, the first Nazi war criminal to…

Nancy BilyeauFebruary 25, 2019

Fiction

“Cilka’s Journey” Is a Beacon of Hope Amid One of History’s Darkest Epochs

"Morris’s propulsive tale shows the goodness that can be found even inside the gulag." — Publishers Weekly —∞— Cilka’s Journey (St. Martin's Press), Heather Morris’s follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, illuminates the gut-wrenching story of a Jewish girl who's captured by the Nazis at age 16 and forced to…

Jessica McEnteeDecember 2, 2020

Fiction Fiction - Featured Nonfiction

A Striking Portrayal of Mother-Daughter Duo Versus the California Reich

In this absolutely gripping take on an important moment in world history, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam) is a fantastic historical fiction-meets-spy-novel depiction of a mother and daughter trying to foil the plots of German Nazis in the United States. The year is 1940, right after…

Mckenzie TozanSeptember 23, 2022

Author Spotlight Nonfiction

Investigative Journalist Peels Back Layers of History to Reconnect Family in “The Unanswered Letter”

Author and investigative journalist, Faris Cassell takes us on an incredible journey as she uncovers layers of history in The Unanswered Letter. In 1939, a Jewish man in Vienna mailed a letter to a woman in California with the same last name. The letter was a desperate plea to help…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 14, 2020

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

Travel “Into the Forest” With a Remarkable Story of Holocaust Survival

The Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped Nazi Death Marches

3 Ways I Live from My Deathbed Every Single Day

Grandmother’s Resurfacing Spurs Woman’s Quest to Find Family Lost in WWII Latvia

“The Flight Portfolio” Inspired by Man Who Helped Jewish Artists Escape Occupied France

Jennifer Rosner Takes Us Inside Gripping “The Yellow Bird Sings”

“The Lost Family” Covers Marriage and Love Post-WWII

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice

Kate Quinn’s “The Huntress:” Chase for War Camp Guard

“Cilka’s Journey” Is a Beacon of Hope Amid One of History’s Darkest Epochs

A Striking Portrayal of Mother-Daughter Duo Versus the California Reich

Investigative Journalist Peels Back Layers of History to Reconnect Family in “The Unanswered Letter”

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