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Amiable
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In 2009, historian Wendy Lower discovered this photo in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It depicts the actual moment of the murder of a Jewish family in 1941. Over a 10-year period, Lower conducted extensive research to identify the location and date of the mass executions, the German and Ukrainian soldiers who pulled the triggers, the Slovakian photographer who snapped the photo —and the identities of the woman and her children. #antifabookclub

kspenmoll I have this - somewhere so must find it after your review! I have been mercilessly culling my bookshelves for our local library sale, so it‘s sure to turn up! 2d
Amiable @kspenmoll I am in awe of Lower‘s research skills! 2d
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Butterfinger There are no words. 2d
Chrissyreadit This must have been an incredible and intense research effort. Thank you so much for sharing this. We are already complicit in innocent people disappearing today as a nation and I can only hope we do not see this also. 2d
AmyG 😥 2d
sarahbarnes 💔💔💔 2d
Susanita Horrific 2d
dabbe I literally couldn't breathe while reading this. 😮‍💨😤😪 2d
TheBookHippie I know the story. Haven‘t read the book. Just ordered it. 2d
Suet624 And as Trump sends people to camps, who can guarantee that things like this won‘t happen 2d
TheBookHippie @Suet624 I suspect they will. 2d
Deblovestoread The same ones who don't care about camps in America also said Never Forget. The disconnect is unreal. I'll be ordering the book as well. 2d
CBee This picture made me gasp. I‘ll be looking for this book as well 💔 2d
Leftcoastzen I have it on the TBR , moving it up! 2d
AnnCrystal
...Horrifying...no words 😢🙏🏼...
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Butterfinger
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Hard to type through my emotions. This is a middle grade nonfiction of Gerta and Rudi's heartwrenching escapes from Slovakia. Rudi's escape from Auschwitz resulted in FDR demanding Hungary to stop transports to the death camp. They may have saved a 1/3 of the JewishHungarians. Gerta and her mother crossed Hungary's and Slovakia's borders several times to keep ahead of imprisonment. When asked how to make sure it won't happen again, BE VIGILANT.

Eggs Oh my it sounds heartbreaking but very important 👏🏻 4d
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Butterfinger
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I'm in the middle of two incredible books that are equally tearing me apart.

Promise Me Tomorrow needs to be added to the database. I'm reading it, thanks to LibraryThing.

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GatheringBooks
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#JuneSpecials Day 29: As a young child, Yaffa loved playing and spending time with her friends and also helping out Grandma Alte who was considered to be one of the town‘s photographers, after bringing home a #camera during one of her trips to America. A lovely picturebook biography of how Eishyshok was rebuilt through photographs and memories of precious lives cherished and lived. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pMY

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📸 1w
Eggs Lovely 📷 1w
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ncsufoxes
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Over the last few years I have stopped reading about WWII because it‘s been so overwhelming. This one was interesting but a hard read. The author discusses some of the early history that lead to the Holocaust, the propaganda, the acceptance of many as the Nazi party pushed its agenda forward. He discusses that it‘s impossible for any one person to be an expert in the Holocaust because it covers so many areas, regions, counties of Europe.

ncsufoxes He doesn‘t make excuses for why so many were complicit in what happened. He did discuss some of what was happening in Poland (my great grandparents emigrated to the US from Poland shortly after WWI, they were Catholic & lived somewhere near what is now the Ukraine). He also talks about after the war & basically some of the issues we have today that stem from the past. It was interesting but also difficult for many due to the traumatic past it 2w
Librarybelle Stacking 2w
kspenmoll I ordered it. Could not stop myself. Thanks. 2w
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kspenmoll
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This book is part author‘s memoir,intermingled with discussions & interviews with her grandmother,Helga, archival material from Nazi &Jewish organizations,family mementos,letters,files,& journals her father kept.She writes,”For…Helga, remembering has become a sport– race against oblivion”(21).The author‘s great grandparents & one son perished in a concentration camp.The other son Hans,hides in plain site with his later adopted grandfather,Pepi.⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ in Vienna. After the war, Hans & his wife Helga become physicians & try life in the United States with his family, but after a year they return to their beloved Vienna, as they miss family,culture,the language & the city.The author experiences the same reaction after spending a year as a NYC reporter.She too misses the family closeness & weekly dinners,the city‘s culture & home to her family for generations.So she goes back to Vienna & her⬇️ (edited) 2w
kspenmoll ⬆️ Grandmother‘s home.With her grandmother she tours places of meaning to Helga:old homes sites,some since bombed out & rebuilt, Theresienstadt concentration camp,which her grandmother survived,Terezin,the small town where the camp was located & she saw its people watching them farm,the Aspang train station from which most Viennese were deported.Like many Jewish people, her family were not religious, but viewed themselves as Viennese Austrians. (edited) 2w
tpixie @kspenmoll this sounds very interesting. I have a historical fiction novel on my TBR about that camp 2w
kspenmoll @tpixie that book sounds fascinating! 2w
tpixie @kspenmoll I did enjoy it. More great research by this author. 2w
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kspenmoll
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Starting this before dinner. Have had this on my shelf several years. “
“Why would you return to a city that tried to murder you?” ( cover,Kirkus Review).Anna, the author of this book,is the granddaughter of two Jewish doctors who came to the U.S in the early 1950s. Her grandfather lost his entire family in a concentration camp,while her grandmother was a concentration camp survivor. #porchlife

AnnCrystal Grand porch view 💕🌸🌱💝. 3w
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Floresj
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Part memoir, part history tracing the kids whose parents advertised their children to be taken in by British households in 1938. They originated in Vienna, and each of the stories told had such different paths throughout their lives. It‘s heartbreaking, but the biggest impact is thinking of the parents who knew that sending their children to complete strangers in a different country was the best decision they could make to keep them safe.

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