Some recent work

by Mel Laytner, author

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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 Laytner, The Death Marches, Tablet Magazine

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."

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Mel Laytner From a Number to a Name - Tablet Magazine
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Mel Laytner, Searching Facts, Finding Emotions, Article Silurians Press Club
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Mel Laytner Review of People on the Beach for the Jewish Book Council
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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 Laytner's Review for the Jewish Book Council of Journey Into the Land of the Zeks
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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.

Mel Laytner Did a Questionable Nazi document Fool the Experts - Tablet Magazine
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