RECENT WORK
By Mel Laytner, author
Mel's book talk, sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage, with Mark Sullivan, best selling author of "Beneath a Scarlet Sky," a historical novel based on the life of Pino Lella, an unsung hero of World War II.
Mel's article in Tablet Magazine on the death marches of January 1945, adapted from Chapter 16 of the book, "Death March to Gross Rosen."
In this review for the Jewish Book Council, Mel Laytner examines the oft-neglected story of the heroic efforts to smuggle thousands of Holocaust survivors to Palestine in the years immediately after the war despite the British naval blockade.
Mel's review for the Jewish Book Council examines a little known memoir about the Stalinist Siberian labor camps during World War II, where tens of thousands of prisoners languished and died.
