Holocaust Studies

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.

By National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard, a deeply affecting novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it.

The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimts Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange

November 1940. A circus parade walks through the streets of Warsaw, waving a flag and singing. They are 160 Jewish children, forced by the Nazis to leave their beloved orphanage. It's a sad occasion, but led by Doctor Korczak, their inspirational director, the children are defiantly joyful.

Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in a concentration camp during World War II. Like The Diary of Anne Frank this is a publication of international importance and a book that will endure for decades.

"I did not enjoy hearing my father's stories; nor did I like to think back on my own. I was afraid of memory's clarifying power. Can one die again and again? Later, I came to understand that I could not shortchange the past." - Elisabeth Bizouard-Reicher, from the introduction

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)

Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize

Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canadas Most Important Books