Recommended Reading

Second-guessing life-or-death decisions with the hindsight of history is only natural, asserts British journalist Daniel Finkelstein in his unflinching and gripping family history “Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family.” But even the best guesses available to Jews, like his grandparents, seeking to escape Nazi Germany and Poland in the 1930s could not have forecast the devastatingly swift onslaught of broken promises and Axis military strikes that would so quickly result in the occupation of Allied countries, which were only a short time before considered “safe” from Hitler’s antisemitic persecution.

Details Joel Brand's and the Jewish rescue committee's heroic attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population.

A newly translated edition of Anne Frank's diary restores the original one-third omitted text that offered insight into Anne's emerging sexuality and her turbulent relationship with her mother.