Re: [ha-Safran]: Children's holocaust book "Angel Girl" recalled

There are many fictionalized accounts of historical events--even the Holocaust: Sophie's Choice, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and many others. They are based on actual facts but are presented in story form. However, you know up front that they are fact-based fiction. The problem is that whi

Re: [ha-Safran]: Lerner Publishing Group pulls Anger Girl from market

As a former Holocaust educator (trained by Facing History and Ourselves ,The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Yad Vashem), it would have been fairly easy to find the flaw in Angel Girl by just reading about the camps and their set up. Why couldn't it just have been presented as a

[ha-Safran]: An author's thanks for a great convention

Thanks to the organizers, the Sydney Taylor Committee, my fellow authors and friends, and all those wonderful librarians who appreciated my two Jewish children's books. It was a wonderful convention! Look forward to seeing you again. Deborah Paula Claym