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Alexandra Zapruder

Alexandra Zapruder is the author of Salvaged Pages, which won a National Jewish Book Award, and Twenty-Six Seconds.

In 1944, an anonymous boy detailed the last days of the Lodz Ghetto, writing in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and English in the margins and endpapers of a French novel.

The Searing, Continued Relevance of Diaries From a Genocide

Young people caught in the crossfire of history provide fearless accounts of the horrors of war—and shatter our complacency in real time