Welcome to Litsy!

This short, small book is written from different voices but it packs a punch. Every book that tells a story of the Holocaust is one to be read. It must be.
Link to read about the main character, who was a real person: https://www.accidentaltalmudist.org/heroes/2022/05/18/the-polish-savior/

March #12Booksof2025 #day3

Hope is a strategy after all.

—J.L. Witterick

(As we move closer to closing out this dumpster fire of a year, we must believe and trust that something better is coming. We spit in the face of fascism, we never give in to fear!)

I‘m really struggling with this one and it is 100% me and not the book. I read The Ravine first, and I am still caught up on the BEAUTIFUL work of scholarship that is, that this just isn‘t hitting for me. To be honest, he‘s doing really intriguing and unique scholarship as well, but the scholarship is not his point (and I‘m really wishing it was). His scholarship literally couldn‘t be done today, so my desire for more info is that much stronger.

Short but powerful YA read about a young German girl who discovers the noises in the wall aren‘t mice…they‘re people. Forbidden people. Especially since she is in the Jungmädelbund. When the Gestapo come looking, what will she do?

I guess I didn‘t expect this to be a memoir. Still intriguing and helping to block out all of the bleeding football.
#FatherPatrickDesbois #TheHolocaustOfBullets #audiobook

While Schönhaus' story of living in Berlin under the Nazi regime as a Jewish document forger is interesting, the writing was just so, so bad.

88/80

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

"My survival is the result of events in which the 'law of large numbers' played the major part."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

This reading is inspired by The Book of Lost Names that piqued my interest in the people who forged documents in WWII. Shout out to @Offmybookshelf for finding this book and passing it on to me ❤️

There are hundreds of Holocaust memoirs, but it doesn‘t matter how many you read—each one is unique, and each one will tear your heart open. This is exactly why we should continue to keep these stories alive. Books like these are being banned at an alarming rate. A new American Gestapo is running rampant. Nazis are coming out and gaining momentum.
The author survived Auschwitz and Mittelsteine and recounts those experiences here. For each⬇️