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Remembering as Resistance: The Future of Holocaust Literature
Click HERE for the link to my latest article for The Jewish Book Council's blog, PB Daily!
6 days ago1 min read
From My New Book, an excerpt on Purim During the Holocaust
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The World Has Caught Fire: Life and Death in Holocaust-Era Poland (Amsterdam Publishers, September 2026). It details how Dora Bursztajn and her family experienced Purim 1942. They lived in Brzeziny, a small city in central Poland that was invaded by the Nazis in September of 1939. The town's Jews were forced into a walled-off area -- the ghetto -- about two years before this story takes place. It had been two years of fear,
Mar 312 min read
Chapter 30: Such Tsuris.
Neukölln, Berlin. September 1944. It was, by most accounts, a fairly typical day for the Jewish women enslaved at the Krupp factory. Up...
Oct 3, 20258 min read
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