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<\/h4>\nEscaping Extermination: Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist<\/a><\/h4>\nby Agi Jambor, Edited by Frances Pinter<\/p>\n
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Written shortly after the close of World War II, Escaping Extermination<\/em> tells the poignant story of war, survival, and rebirth for a young, already acclaimed, Jewish Hungarian concert pianist, Agi Jambor. From the hell that was the siege of Budapest to a fresh start in America, the author describes how she and her husband escaped the extermination of Hungary\u2019s Jews through a combination of luck and wit.<\/p>\nUnpublished until now but written in the immediacy of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Escaping Extermination<\/em> is a story of hope, resilience, and even humor in the fight against evil.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler<\/a><\/h4>\nby Tom Pfister, Kathy Pfister, and Peter Pfister<\/p>\n
Eva and Otto<\/em> is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister and Otto Pfister, who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940.<\/p>\nThe book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to the duty of helping others threatened by fascism. Their unusually beautiful writing\u2014directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation\u2014also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.<\/p>\n
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Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight<\/a><\/h4>\nby Edith Mayer Cord<\/p>\n
Finding Edith<\/em> is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the book describes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews throughout Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nRebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America<\/a><\/h4>\nby Fred Behrend with Larry Hanover<\/p>\n
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Fred Behrend\u2019s childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) and his father\u2019s harrowing internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. Behrend would go on to experience brushes with history involving the defeated Germans. By the age of twenty, he had run a POW camp full of Nazis, been an instructor in a program aimed at denazifying specially selected prisoners, and been assigned by the U.S. Army to watch over Wernher von Braun, the designer of the V-2 rocket that terrorized Europe and later chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon. This book tells his story.<\/p>\n
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<\/h4>\nOf Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life<\/a><\/h4>\nby Eva Mayer Schay<\/p>\n
This fascinating autobiography is set against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stubborn struggle against unjust regimes, sustained by a deep belief in the strength of the human spirit and the transcendental power of music. It is also an account of a rich spiritual life, during which the author has built upon her Jewish roots through the study of Eastern philosophy and meditation.<\/p>\n
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Unpublished until now but written in the immediacy of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Escaping Extermination<\/em> is a story of hope, resilience, and even humor in the fight against evil.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by Tom Pfister, Kathy Pfister, and Peter Pfister<\/p>\n Eva and Otto<\/em> is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister and Otto Pfister, who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940.<\/p>\n The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to the duty of helping others threatened by fascism. Their unusually beautiful writing\u2014directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation\u2014also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by Edith Mayer Cord<\/p>\n Finding Edith<\/em> is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the book describes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews throughout Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by Fred Behrend with Larry Hanover<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fred Behrend\u2019s childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) and his father\u2019s harrowing internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. Behrend would go on to experience brushes with history involving the defeated Germans. By the age of twenty, he had run a POW camp full of Nazis, been an instructor in a program aimed at denazifying specially selected prisoners, and been assigned by the U.S. Army to watch over Wernher von Braun, the designer of the V-2 rocket that terrorized Europe and later chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon. This book tells his story.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by Eva Mayer Schay<\/p>\n This fascinating autobiography is set against the backdrop of some of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century. It is the story of a stubborn struggle against unjust regimes, sustained by a deep belief in the strength of the human spirit and the transcendental power of music. It is also an account of a rich spiritual life, during which the author has built upon her Jewish roots through the study of Eastern philosophy and meditation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nEva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler<\/a><\/h4>\n
Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Of Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life<\/a><\/h4>\n
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