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Hitler’s Jewish Army
by Ellen Feldman
While conducting research for her novel, author Ellen Feldman stumbled upon one of…
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Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo
by Susan Cahill The Grand Mosque of Paris was built between 1922 and 1926 to symbolize…
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A Judenrat’s Financial Triumph Over the Gestapo
by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat It was March 1941. Nearly a year had passed…
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Life Inside the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
by David Cesarani Until the mass eviction of German Jews to Theresienstadt, the ghetto-camp had a…
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Elie Wiesel: Night
Preface to Night by Elie Wiesel If in my lifetime I was to write only one…
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Ben Mankiewicz: “If Your Last Name Is Mankiewicz”
by Ben Mankiewicz Writing about my father should be easy. But it isn’t. Writing is supposed…
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Primo Levi: An Author Q&A
by Sergio Luzzatto No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literately powerful and historically influential as…
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Jewish History
Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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