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Nonfiction Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City Frances Tanzer
Children’s Hold On to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Emil Sher (Adaptor), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)
Fiction Lisa of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War II Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Sarah J. Robbins (Adapter),Olga and Aleksey Ivanov (Illustrator)
Nonfiction Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind Julie Metz
Nonfiction The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle David Edmonds
Nonfiction Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg
Essay Frequency Hopping: The Jewish Identity of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books Emily Schneider May 25, 2020
Excerpt You Have to Have Been a Refugee Yourself Excerpted from Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz ScheyerI know that I will provoke the criticism in some… Moriz Scheyer September 29, 2016