We are pleased to starting this new year reporting the new publications of our two collaborators and friends Agnes Grunwald-Spier and Yair Auron.

“Women’s Experience in the Holocaust: in their own words” by the author and historian Agnes Grunwald-Spier is the moving and detailed portrait of the several difficulties women had faced during the Nazi persecution - told by a Holocaust survivor, and based on diaries and memories. This book - available in stores since January 15th - brings to life women’s experience in the most terrible circumstances, underlining how they have been able to cope with strange new roles and take care of their families. Despite men were taken away from them, women have been indeed able to deal not only with their physical needs, but also with feeding those in their care and with medical issues. The book includes the diary of Rosina Sorani who was the secretary of the Rome synagogue when it was looted in October 1943.

Rescuers 1929 - Rescue Stories of Jews and Palestinians in Hebron is the new book by Yair Auron - Israeli historian, Professor at the Open University in Israel - published on January 10th, and presented in his presence to a symposium which took place at the spiritual center in Neve Shalom Wahat Al Salam. On that occasion there were Rachel Admoni Schneerson, a descendant of a family of survivors, Shai Weinapel, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Maram Masarwa, Dean of the Faculty of Education at Al-Qasemi College, Ashraf Eid al-Ajrami, member of the Palestinian Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society on behalf of the PLO, Hillel Cohen, a member of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University and Orit Friedland, literary editor of the book.

Enjoy your reading!