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Debórah Dwork

Debórah Dwork is director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY. Author (with Robert Jan van Pelt) of Flight from the Reich, Holocaust, and Auschwitz, among other works, she lives in New York.

Debórah Dwork

Debórah Dwork is director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY. Author (with Robert Jan van Pelt) of Flight from the Reich, Holocaust, and Auschwitz, among other works, she lives in New York.

Awards

Winner — National Jewish Book Award, 1996

Shortlisted — National Jewish Book Award, 2026

Books by Debórah Dwork

  • Auschwitz

    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt

    Paperback, 2006

    "[A] peerless work of documentation and research that sheds new light on this century's darkest address."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
  • Holocaust: A History

    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt

    Paperback, 2004

    A magisterial, dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history.
  • Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946

    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt

    Paperback, 2012

    “An impressive and rich book that provides much-needed attention to Hitler’s other victims.”—Jewish Book World
  • Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis

    Debórah Dwork

    Hardback, 2025

    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Nonfiction

    A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II.
  • Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis

    Debórah Dwork

    E Book

    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Nonfiction

    A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II.