Drawing on newly uncovered letters, Anita Wyzanski Robboy chronicles her mother Gisela Warburg Wyzanski’s daring efforts to rescue Jewish children through Youth Aliyah—and her friendship with Henrietta Szold.
Drawing on letters and journals, Sharon Ann Musher traces her grandmother Hadassah Kaplan’s remarkable journey from Manhattan to British Mandate Palestine.
Two books by distinguished authors—'Crash of the Heavens' and 'Out of the Sky'—explore the story of the poet who parachuted behind enemy lines during the Holocaust.
Winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, the slim but harrowing volume drags readers deep into the fears and pain of a former Israel Defense Forces officer.
Barbara Stark Nemon imagines a secret escape network for Jews and conversos fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition, guided by a teenage girl’s coded embroidery.