dino who loves prunes, tea and
his grandchildren; and other
happy dinos drawn by Sally
Springer.
My Hebrew Dinosaurus can
be enjoyed as both a book and
coloring book.
Also new for children: Don't
Forget (Tambourine) by Patri-
cia Lakin and Ted Rand.
As the story begins, a girl
named Sarah sets off to buy in-
gredients she needs to make a
surprise birthday cake for her
mother. Her last stop is the
Singers' store — a place she pur-
posely avoids. She feels uncom-
fortable seeing the numbers
tattooed on Mr. and Mrs.
Singers' arms.
But as Sarah enters the store,
Mrs. Singer tells her of a special
cake she once made, too. And she
recommends a secret ingredient
certain to make the treat unfor-
gettable.
Patricia Lakin is a native of
Roxbury, Mass., where many of
the shopkeepers in her neigh-
borhood were Holocaust sur-
vivors. Ted Rand's illustrations
have appeared in The New York
Times, Sports Illustrated and
The New Yorker.
n Stones From the River
(Poseidon Press), Ursula Hegi
returns to Burgdorf, the small
German community she de-
picted in Floating in My Moth-
er's Palm.

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Her focus in this latest novel
is a small German community
before, during and after World
War II. The protagonist is Tru-
di Montag, the dwarf (and
daughter of an alcoholic moth-
er) who is often cruel, yet proves
to be surprisingly sane as the
world around her falls to mad-
ness.
Trudi becomes the town's li-
brarian. An outsider because of
her deformity, she loves gossip
and does not hesitate to exploit
her talent for finding out
everyone's secrets. But as
Hitler comes to power, Trudi
also is a woman who protects
those who have been kind to her
— including two Jewish fami-
lies.
tefan Kuhl's The Nazi
Connection: Eugenics,
American Racism and
German National So-
cialism (Oxford University
Press) considers the interna-
tional ties in the eugenics move-

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ment and reveals the truth
about the connection between
the Nazi "racial hygiene" pro-
gram and American eugenicists
(those who advocate "improving"
the population through forced
sterilization and marriage con-
trol).
Based on extensive research
including letters between scien-
tists in both countries, Mr. Kuhl
documents American scientists'
admiration of Hitler's policies on
sterilization, and shows how the

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features the
exercising Boker
Tovatops, the
dinosaurs' answer
to Jane Fonda.

Nazis regarded American eu-
genics as a model for their own
plans.
In The Nazi Connection, Mr.
Kuhl reports on the American
eugenicists who traveled to Ger-
many to study the Nazi laws, the
U.S. scientists who gave their
names and research to German
race journals, and the importa-
tion of a Nazi pro-
paganda film for
use in the United
States.
Mr. Kuhl, a soci-
ologist and his-
torian at the Uni-
versity of Bielefeld
in Germany, began
writing his book fol-
lowing his work
with mentally dis-
abled persons,
"which piqued my
interest in how the
mentally ill were treated in the
past." Among his early findings:
"The United States had played
an important role as a model of
a country in which eugenic ster-
ilizationand immigration were
to some degree successfully im-
plemented."
he new One Foot Ashore
(Walker and Co.) by
Jacqueline Dembar
Greene follows the path of
Maria Ben Lazar, a young Jew-
ish girl kidnapped from her par-
ents and sent to Brazil to be
raised a Catholic.
Maria manages to escape by
stowing away aboard a ship to
Amsterdam, where she hopes to
be reunited with her parents and
sister, Isobel.
Incorporating historical facts
of the time, One Foot Ashore also
chronicles the friendship be-

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painter Rembrandt van Rijn,
who helps the girl search for her
family. Li

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