Book Samples
Book Samples
AUTHOR: Rose Gilbert with Alexandra Moller
DESIGNER: Ben Kutil
In the heart of Budapest, in 1944, as the Nazis raced to deport the city’s Jews to concentration camps—Rose Gilbert and two of her siblings were saved in a building protected by the Swiss government. Their story is part of one of Holocaust’s incredible rescue efforts—the saving of nearly 100,000 Jews in Budapest by diplomats from neutral countries, including Switzerland.
AUTHOR: Alexandra Moller
DESIGNER: Olga Zhivov
ILLUSTRATOR: Chamisa Kellogg
A girl born in a tiny, impoverished shtetl in Eastern Europe immigrates to New York where she marries a handsome pharmacist whose parents hailed from the very same shtetl. During their nearly 60 years together, they raised a family and worked side-by-side in his drug-stores. She carried on remarkably for 23 years after his passing, living gracefully as her family’s beloved matriarch until age 102.
AUTHOR: Alexandra Moller
DESIGNER: Marnie Kenney
Newlyweds fled Nazi Germany in 1938 on one of the last ships carrying Jewish refugees to safety. As the ship pulled away from the dock, the husband vowed that he would someday prove the failure of Hitler’s plan—to rid Germany of Jews forever—by returning to his hometown as a successful man who could afford to stay in the town’s fanciest hotel. Years later, he fulfilled his vow.