Monthly Archives: February 2012

According to the journalist Charles Lewis who wrote in The National Post in January 2011, Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, a new history of mass murder during the 1930s and 1940s under Nazism and communism, said that, after he finished … Continue reading →

Eric Sundquist in the Wall St. Journal “Despite the hazards of trying to represent events often said to be “unknowable,” Ms. Franklin insists on the moral authority of the imagination and shows the power of literature to uncover the truths … Continue reading →

Shoah: The Next Generation What Comes After the Survivors? By David Biale Published February 01, 2011, in the Forward. Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Jewish Refugees in the Second World War By Muriel R. Gillick University of Alabama … Continue reading →

The Holocaust memoir has been a difficult subject in recent years. There have been several whopper-sized Holocaust frauds. These have included Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, about a young child in the camps. It won the National … Continue reading →