Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist's vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter's pursuit of a haunting question: what had almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.

"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--

Weaving together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film, this 90-minute film explores the complex social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust. The story of Kurt Klein, who struggled with State Department red tape to free his parents from Europe, represents America's reaction to European Jews clamoring for rescue.

Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including displaced persons, partisan fighters, hidden children, and refugees from Nazism. Ouzan shows that personal success is not only a...

A sus catorce años, Lisa Jura es un prodigio de la música y sueña con convertirse en concertista de piano. Cuando el ejército de Hitler entra en Viena antes de la guerra, sus padres se ven obligados a tomar una difícil decisión: solo pueden salvaguardar a una de sus tres hijas. Deciden entonces enviar a la talentosa Lisa a Londres a través del Kindertransport, programa para refugiados que da acogida a niños y niñas víctimas de la persecución...

"A recently discovered account describes an Austrian Jewish writer's flight from Vienna when the advance of the Nazis forced him from both his home and his job, and his hidden life in France during the war."--Publisher

"Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee's friendship with the future founder of IKEA. Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the thirteen-year-old...

"A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--