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The Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Winners and Honors

The Children's Book Podcast

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Yafa Ilyak's Story

When the Nazis invaded in 1941, Yafa Ilyak and her family fled. Many years later, she had become a Holocaust historian. She traveled around the world for 17 years to collect photos of every person who lived in Aisha Shah. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter reached out to Yafa to help build a memorial at Washington's Holocaust museum.

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