The people who carry the story
Survivors. Their children (2G). Their grandchildren (3G).
Jewish writers who took responsibility for what they inherited.
Bakst is a historian and the granddaughter of Gershon Bakst, a Vilna cobbler and partisan. She holds a doctorate in Holocaust studies.
A former director at the Bronx Zoo and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Berkovits has published memoir, essay, and now her first novel.
A journalist and longtime professor at Baruch College, Bernstein is the daughter of a survivor. This is her first novel.
A retired attorney, Birnbaum is the daughter of a Ritchie Boy — one of the Jewish refugees the U.S. Army trained to interrogate German prisoners in their own language.
A writer and educator, Birnbaum is the granddaughter of Rosie Greenstein, whose story she wrote in her grandmother's voice.
Brill reconstructed her grandmother's wartime childhood from letters and recordings.
An archivist by profession, Feldman inherited his grandfather's ledger of names and spent twelve years researching the people in it.
A therapist and writer in Jerusalem, Goldstein has spent her career working with descendants of trauma survivors.
Born in Berlin in 1939, Grossman spent two years of the war hidden with her family in an apartment above a Gestapo office. She emigrated to Israel in 1949.
A German-Jewish writer based in Frankfurt. Hein spent decades drawing out the story his mother refused to tell.
Associate principal cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra for thirty-two years. Her father survived Auschwitz as a forced member of the camp orchestra.
Son of a Buchenwald survivor. Schneider spent a decade recording his father's account before his death in 2019. He lives in Tel Aviv, where he teaches history.
Sheft began recording her grandmother's wartime memories as a teenager. She completed the book at twenty-four.
A therapist and writer, Sorochinsky has spent her career working with descendants of trauma survivors.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1923, Wandall-Holm survived Auschwitz and settled in Denmark after the war. She wrote her memoir in her nineties.
A physician in Chicago, Wolf spent fifteen years reconstructing his father's double imprisonment — first by the Nazis, then by the Soviets.