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Jan 10, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Lauren Grodstein |Kim Kovacs
BookBrowse: A novel of the Holocaust, inspired by the Warsaw Ghetto's Oneg Shabbat Project
On September 1, 1939, Hitler's forces invaded Poland. His administration established the Warsaw Ghetto, a fenced and guarded area of Warsaw to which all Poland's Jews were forced to relocate just over a year later.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Lauren Grodstein
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein This is set in the Warsaw Ghetto and based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II. It's extraordinary. I've read a lot of Holocaust books... this one is exquisite. I was emotional reading it because of the way Grodstein writes — she's a beautiful writer. Roxanne, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Lauren Grodstein
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Catherine O’C
Raw and Realistic
I have read hundreds, if not thousands of novels set during World War II. The novel We Must Not Think of Ourselves is one in its own class. This novel takes place in a Polish ghetto over the course of almost 2 years.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
forward.com | Lauren Grodstein |Julia M. Klein
We Must Not Think of Ourselves By Lauren Grodstein Algonquin, 304 pages, $29As the Holocaust recedes in time, the complexities and varieties of Jewish resistance are moving into sharper focus. Rebellion, we now realize, wasn't limited to taking up arms, committing sabotage, or eluding capture; it could mean countering the Nazi ideology of death with an affirmation of life. Music was one powerful prong of resistance.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Jonathan Evison |Lauren Grodstein |Sarah James |Tsitsi Mapepa
Share with friends:Permanent Link:Eugene Miles is either 105 or more than a thousand years old. In Again and Again, his eighth novel, Jonathan Evison (Small World; Lawn Boy) presents another endearing protagonist. Whether "Geno" is a fabulous storyteller or a time-traveling wanderer, his story is a life-affirming saga of hope and the enduring power of love.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Lauren Grodstein
More than 20 years ago, while visiting Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, I stood on cobblestones taken from the Warsaw Ghetto. I tried to imagine myself in 1940, when the Jews of that Polish city were wrenched from their former lives by the Nazis and imprisoned in an area of one-and-a-half square miles. Trapped and starving, their fate unknown, they resolved to write their own history.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
readinggroupguides.com | Lauren Grodstein
Inspired by a little-known piece of history --- the underground group that kept an archive to ensure that the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II were not lost to history --- this is a heart-wrenching novel of love and defiance that People calls "gripping, emotional, and against all odds, hopeful." On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi...
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
bookbrowse.com | Lauren Grodstein
Book Summary A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick and named a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews (Best Fiction Books of the Year & Best Historical Fiction of 2023) On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi...
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Kim Hubbard |Lauren Grodstein
FictionLauren Grodstein’s new novel takes place in the Warsaw ghetto, where a secret group of archivists made sure the truth survived. Nov. 27, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETWE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES, by Lauren GrodsteinTwo decades before World War II, Lauren Grodstein’s great-grandparents fled Poland’s capital city and the antisemitism that was already ascendant there.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Kim Hubbard |Lauren Grodstein
FictionLauren Grodstein’s new novel takes place in the Warsaw ghetto, where a secret group of archivists made sure the truth survived. “We Must Not Think of Ourselves” is Lauren Grodstein’s fifth novel. She has also written a collection of short stories. WE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES, by Lauren GrodsteinTwo decades before World War II, Lauren Grodstein’s great-grandparents fled Poland’s capital city and the antisemitism that was already ascendant there.
