The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, Lynne Olson

The true story of how an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s all-female concentration camp. They risked death for any infraction, but that did not stop them from defying the SS at every turn.

A Fool’s Kabbalah, Steve Stern

In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis or hidden by the Jews themselves in secret places throughout the ravaged continent.

Sons and Daughters, Chaim Grade

This novel provides a glimpse of a way of life that is no longer — the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate — by one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction. It illuminates the clash between the secular world and the life bound by religious duty.