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What We’re Reading: Eileen Lavine

Each week, we'll take a look at what Moment editors are reading, from newspapers to novels. This week we hear from Eileen Lavine, a senior editor at Moment since 2008 who has previously been a writer and editor for the New Bedford Standard Times, The New York Times Youth Forums, and UNESCO. Is there ever a point when we say "enough" or "too much" with books on the Holocaust and concentration camps?  On the contrary, I find myself  haunted by the "what if," especially with stories of young girls who were my age at the time.  As time passes and survivors soon will no longer be here to tell their tales, it is necessary for all the stories to be told, as Francine Prose stresses in her introduction to Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, which...

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