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Nonfiction Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan that Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich Isabel Vincent
Fiction Adam: The Story of a German Jewish Family in the Time of the Weimar Republic Christopher Charlton
Nonfiction How to Hunt a Bear: A World War two Historical Novel, based on a true story Revital Shiri-Horowitz
Nonfiction Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II Judy Rakowsky
Witness to History-From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resilience Jean Hoffmann Lewanda
Nonfiction Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War Deborah Cohen
Nonfiction By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream Dan Grunfeld