Book Group
The 2nd Generation Book Group
The Generations After, Inc. sponsors a book group which meets every other month in member’s homes or on Zoom, during the pandemic. Participants read and discuss a variety of Holocaust-related literature—history, political analysis, memoirs, fiction—with a special emphasis on second generation authors’ reflections on the impact of the Shoah on their families and on their lives.
For more information, contact Charlotte, the book group coordinator, at generationafterdc@gmail.com.g
Books Recently Read
and Discussed by Members of The Generations After’s Book Group, which formed in March, 2011:
- Aciman, Andre Out of Egypt: A Memoir
- Ackerman, Diane The Zookeeper’s Wife
- Applefeld, Arahon A Story of a Life
- Blum, Jenna Those Who Save Us
- Dershowitz, Alan Just Revenge
- Doerr, Anthony All The Light We Cannot See
- Duffy,Peter The Bielski Brothers:The True Story of the Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest,and Saved 1200 Jews
- Dumbach,Arlene, and Newborn, Jud Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
- Edsel, Robert and Bret Witter The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- Ehrlich, Elizabeth Miriam’s Kitchen
- Elon, Amos The Pity of it All:A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
- Epstein, Franci Rabinek Franci’sWar
- Epstein, Helen Children of the Holocaust
- Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning
- Franklin, Ruth A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction
- Fremont, Helen After Long Silence
- Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan Anya
- Goldsmith, Martin Alex’s Wake Program with the Author
- Grimbart, Philippe A Secret Film based on the book of the same name
- Gross, Jan Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jebwadne, Poland
- Grossman, David See Under: Love
- Hahn Beer, Edith with Susan Dworkin The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
- Hoffman, Eva Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
- Hunter, Georgia We Were the Lucky Ones
- Kelly, Martha Hall Lilac Girls: A Novel
- Kent, Roman Courage was My Only Option: The Will to Survive – the Strength to Remember
- Larson, Erik In the Garden of Beasts
- Lipstadt, Deborah Denying the Holocaust
- Lower, Wendy Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- Lowry, Lois Number the Stars Young Adult fiction, read in conjunction with Yolen, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
- Morris, Heather The Tattooist of Auschwitz- an Historical Novel
- Nemirovsky, Irene Suite Francaise
- Neumann, Ariana WhenTime Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains
- Offenberger, Ilana Fritz The Jews of Nazi Vienna: 1938-1945, Rescue and Destruction
- Roitman, Gina Tell Me a Story, Tell me the Truth
- Rojstaczer, Stuart The Mathematician’s Daughter
- Rose, Daniel Asa Hiding Places
- de Rosnay, Tatiana Sarah’s Key Read book and saw film several months later
- Roy, Jennifer Yellow Star (Zoom meeting included the author and her son and granddaughter)
- Safran Foer, Jonathan Everything is Illuminated
- Schneiderman, Pentlin, Susan Lee The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Stone, Judith Resilience: One Family’s Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil
- Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
- Szpilman, Wladyslaw The Pianist
- Weisel, Elie Night
- Wyman, David The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
- Wyszogrod, Morris A Brush With Death: An Artist in the Death Camps
- Yole, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic
Additional Recent Programs-with-the-Author
Author Programs sponsored by The Generations After, Inc.:
May 24, 2020: Helen Epstein: Children of Holocaust Survivors: Where are We Now? The Long Half-Life of Love and Trauma and Franci’s War
February 10, 2020:Helen Fremont: Escape Artists at Busboys and Poets
June 27,2021
Martin Goldsmith: Discussion of film, Winter Journey based on his book, The Inextinguishable Symphony
- Black, Edwin IBM and the Holocaust
- Buergenthal, Thomas A Lucky Child
- Goldsmith, Martin The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
- Lichtman, Allan FDR and the Jews
- Roitman, Gina Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth; Facilitator of Gen After Writing Groups
- Neumann, Arianna When Time Stopped
The 2nd Generation Book Group is a program of the Generations After, Inc. To participate, membership in Generations After is required. You can join on this website on the Membership page. Discussions are from the perspective of members who are children of Jewish Holocaust survivors.
