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close friends
after making ,
very different
choices during
turbulent times.
The woman
from Poland
risks her own
life and her
mother's for the
sake of her
principles,
while the
Russian woman
joins the
Communist Party under duress and
becomes a high-level censor. The
granddaughter-author has been a for-
eign correspondent based in Russia.
Although some resist, most acquiesce
and eventually enter the military. The
author, a research professor emeritus in
Canada, used letters, diaries and recol-
lections as sources for his text.
The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner
Circle by Anthony Read (Norton:
$34.95):
The lives of Hermann. Goring,
Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich
Himmler are described with attention
to their early backgrounds, military
careers and political actions. Their
devotion to Hider is detailed as their
Holocaust atrocities become the focus.
The author has worked on 10 nonfic-
tion projects and television scripts in
England.
with a very special
Mother's Day menu
Rose Guttman
Justice Matters: Legacies of the
Holocaust and World War //by Mona
Sue Weissmark (Oxford University
Press; $28):
The interaction at a meeting attend-
ed by sons and daughters of both
Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetra-
tors is chronicled. The idea was to stop
the hatred between the groups. The
author, whose parents were survivors, is
a psychologist and founder of the
Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at
Roosevelt University.
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder,
and Everyday Lift in Nazi Germany,
An Oral History by Eric Johnson and
Karl-Heinz Reuband (Basic Books;
$27.50):
Based on a survey of more than
3,000 people and personal interviews
with 200 Germans alive during the
Third Reich, the authors describe how
non-Jewish. Germans led very normal
existences during the time of the Nazis.
They report that millions of ordinary
German citizens knew about the mass
murders, and they explain that rela-
tions between Jews and non Jews were
good before Hitler came to power.
Johnson is a history professor at
Central Michigan University in Mount
Pleasant, while Reuband is a professor
of sociology at the University of
Dusseldorf.
Mon - Fri, Lunch & Dinner
The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi
Who Saved Jews by Michael Good
(Fordham University Press; $27.95):
Major Karl Plagge examines his
moral choices and finds ways to save
Lithuanian Jews while supposedly car-
rying out his military duties. He issues
warnings so that threatened Jews can
find hiding places, and he argues that
workers scheduled to be killed actually
are indispensable. One survivor is the
mother of the author, a doctor in
Connecticut.
Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a
Holocaust Swindler by Mark
Kalmansohn (Brassey's Inc.; $27.95):
Victims of Lucian Kozminski, who
has swindled thousands of Holocaust
survivors, tell. their stories. It is believed
that the criminal faked his own death,
and the search for him continues. The
author, an entertainment lawyer and
former U.S. attorney, seeks the help of
the public in tracking him down and
makes appeals through the book and
TV appearances.
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
(Harvard University Press; $27;95):
Nazi leaders bring young people into
their ranks by involving boys in sports
activities and girls in domestic pursuits.
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Starring: Denyce Graves
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A NEW AMERICAN OPERA!
Based on the compelling true
story of fugitive slave Margaret
Garner, and the tragic decision
she made to save her children
and grant them freedom.
Witness the strength of the
human spirit, and recognize that
hope transcends even the most
unbearable circumstances.
Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs
Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble by
Roger Cohen (Knopf;$25.95):
Captured Americans thought to be
Jewish become slave laborers at a con-.
centration camp in Eastern Germany.
Their treatment is described, and the
delay in providing them with compen-
sation is examined. The author is a cor-
respondent for The New York Times.
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust
and America's Most Important
Newspaper by Laurel Leff (Cambridge
University. Press; $29):
The New York Times and its coverage
of the fate of European Jews from
1939-1945 are examined. Laurel Leff
explains why she believes the newspa-
per minimized and misunderstood
genocide at the hands of the Nazis and
influenced other newspapers to do the
same. The author was a journalist for
18 years before joining the faculty of
Northeastern University- in Boston. ❑
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