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
- 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, Gorgia We Were the Lucky Ones
- Kelly, Martha Hall Lilac Girls: A Novel
- 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
- Nemirovsky, Irene Suite Francaise
- 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
- Safran Foer, Jonathan Everything is Illuminated
- Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
- Szpilman, Wladyslaw The Pianist
- Wyman, David The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
Additional Recent Programs-with-the-Author
sponsored by The Generations After, Inc.:
- 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
- Neumann, Arianna When Time Stopped
