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The boy in the picture
Bernhard Falkenberg and family The strangest thing happened. I went looking for Selinger–a high-placed Nazi who protected my family for a while during World War II–and found Falkenberg. Bernhard...
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the whore of Solna Street
Okay, this sounds weird, but I wanted to write a light-hearted story based in the Holocaust. After all, as Gunter Grass writes, “On sorrow floats laughter.” The new story is called, The Whore of Solna...
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Ballad of the Holocaust
Mother and Son, Dieter Schlüter and Emma Falkenberg, in 1940 Meet Dieter Schlüter. Dieter is the boy in the picture, the stepson of Bernhard Falkenberg, declared Righteous Among the Nations in 1969. In...
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The Next Big Thing
My marvelous and dedicated agent, the great Jean Naggar, has included me in a blog network to which she was invited. Jean isn’t just a blockbuster agent, she is also a talented and lyrical writer....
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The Golem of Zukow
My short story, The Golem of Zukow, has just been published in The Kenyon Review’s online journal. (Whoo hoo!) And to get you hooked, here are the first 300 words. The Golem of Zukow by Helen Maryles...
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Finding a Righteous Gentile
Here is an excerpt from a story about me and Dieter, written by Deena Yellin, published today in The Jewish Standard! When Teaneck author Helen Maryles Shankman dug into her family history, she hoped...
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Anatomy of a Book Cover
What’s a good way to avoid cleaning for Passover, you ask? How about posting photos of the progress of my book cover? Originally, I started with the idea of my protagonist, Raphael Sinclair,...
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Horror and the Holocaust: An Interview with Helen Maryles-Shankman
The author of ‘The Color of Light’ talks about her debut novel, which is part romance, part supernatural thriller, and part Holocaust fiction By: Zak Edwards Published: February 13th, 2014 in Culture...
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Helen Maryles Shankman – In the Land of Armadillos – StudioNow
Source: Helen M Shankman – In the Land of Armadillos – StudioNow It was super cool making this, a video where I talk about the stories behind “In the Land of Armadillos.”
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looking for Selinger, part 4
The drive leading to Adampol Palace I’ve come to realize I’ll never know what really happened, and I’m trying to make my peace with that. Did Willy Selinger, Commandant of the labor camp at Adampol,...
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