How do we tell the stories of the Holocaust? Author Kate Thompson on the challenge and responsibility of bearing witness and documenting the experience of Holocaust survivor, Renee Salt

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How do we tell the stories of the Holocaust? Here’s how I researched and felt my way into A Mother’s Promise! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

The stamina!! 95-yr-old Holocaust survivor Renee Salt has been everywhere this week, from documentaries to number 10, TV interviews to talks. The lengths this courageous woman goes to in order to share her testimony is something to behold #AMothersPromise!

Meet Renee. She is 95. A survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Her first book is out on Kindle now and hardback next
Month, proving the need to share can overcome the desire to forget! #AMothersPromise

Meet Neil. He’s an award-winning prison librarian. Listen to our podcast chat on From The Library With Love. Neil is passionate about the transformative power of books and reading. www.fromthelibrarywithlove.com

100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' Webb on keeping her wartime secrets. Listen herehttps://www.fromthelibrarywithlove.com/2222670/episodes/13590264-100-year-old-bletchley-park-codebreaker-charlotte-betty-webb-on-keeping-her-wartime-secrets
This woman is a national treasure!

Beautiful views from twilight and morning dog walk and each time all I can think is, if I owned that house how fast id turn that Victorian boat house into a writing den!

Surprised/delighted to find my story of the underground library built over the tracks of the Tube during the Blitz at Bethnal Green pop up in this Lonely Planet Book. I’m biased but it’s the best little hidden library in the world #Thelittlewartimelibrary

Holding beautiful Renee over my heart. Upcoming nonfiction on 95 yr old Holocaust survivor Renee Salt, Do Not Cry When I Die, March 2025 US & Canada, A Mothers Promise in the UK and Australia, publishing 80 years after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen. More to follow on the life force that is Renee

Holding beautiful Renee over my heart. My non-fiction about 95-yr-old Holocaust survivor Renee Salt is taking shape. In US & Canada it's called Do Not Cry When I Die, due March 2025 @Alcovepress & @simonschusterca.bsky.social UK it's called A Mother's Promise, Feb 13th,2025 @orionbooks.bsky.social