Book Talk

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Compared to Casablanca by The Washington Post, this is a page–turning story of a group of resistance workers who rescued downed Allied fighter pilots and spirited them through France and into safety in Spain during World War II. 

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Join Samuel Freedman and Jane Eisner as they discuss Freedman’s new book, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. Their discussion will focus on Humphrey’s fight against antisemitism in post-World War II America.

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11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

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*** PLEASE NOTE DATE OF NOVEMBER 12 (CHANGED FROM OCTOBER 15) ***

Not to be missed! Few people know that the Holocaust extended beyond the European continent, into the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. There, Nazi Germany, Vichy France and Fascist Italy sent thousands of Jews to forced labor and set up dozens of concentration camps for both local Jews and Jewish refugees from Europe. For 20 years, Dr. Robert Satloff has been on a quest to find Arabs who rescued Jews from this persecution. The result is the powerful film, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands, and a companion book.

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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Hannie Schaft, the “girl with the red hair,” was a university student when Nazi Germany occupied the neutral Netherlands in 1940. Over the next five years she risked everything — her education, her safety, her family, and her life — in order to shelter her Jewish friends and become, along with her young comrades, the Oversteegen sisters, one of the Most Wanted resistance fighters in the country.  (more…)

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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A compelling nonfiction graphic novel, Whistleblowers is the true story of four courageous individuals who risked their careers — or their lives — to confront the unfolding Holocaust.  (more…)

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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On this Father’s Day program, Dr. Shulamit Reinharz tells her father’s story of resistance and survival during the Holocaust. Her stirring new book, Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir, combines the voices of a father who survived the Holocaust and a daughter who explains the historical context of his experiences. Running through the story is a commitment to resistance, from the father’s religious youth in Germany to his embrace of Labor Zionism, his incarceration in Buchenwald and his flight to freedom in Holland. This uplifting story of hope will focus not only on history but also on life lessons passed from one generation to the next.

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Max’s War tells the story of one man’s decision to fight back against Hitler. As the Nazis conquer Europe, Jewish teen Max Steiner and his parents flee German persecution to Holland, where Max finds true friends and a life-altering romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max escapes to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents’ murder, Max immediately enlists in the US Army. 

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1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations.

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