Andrew Nagorski's SAVING FREUD, about Sigmund Freud's last minute escape to London following Hitler's annexation of Austria, and of the extraordinary group of friends who made it possible, optioned to Fuzzy Door Entertainment, by Erica Spellman Silverman at Trident Media Group on behalf of Robert…
Paperback of the weekSaving Freud by Andrew NagorskiIcon Books £10.99This is the astonishing story of Sigmund Freud’s escape from Vienna after the Germans rolled into Austria in 1938 and began to round up Jewish people like him. Freud’s dithering in the face of danger is endearing. He loved his…
After a 15-year hiatus away from the big screen, the greatest adventurer of all time — Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford still cracking the whip at 80) — is once again on the trail of an ancient artifact with supernatural properties in Dial of Destiny.
The first Indy outing produced by Disney, which…
Few of the following qualify as “beach reading”; they all qualify as good reading.
In graduate school, I was informed that there was no such thing as “biblical theology,” only textual analysis. Bishop Robert Barron demonstrates what nonsense that was, and is, in The Great Story of Israel: Election…
Book descriptionWorld War II historian Andrew Nagorski recounts Adolf Hitler’s rise to and consolidation of power, drawing on countless firsthand reports, letters, and diaries that narrate the creation of the Third Reich.
“Hitlerland is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Reading about the Nazis is not…
Arrest of reporter Evan Gershkovich is a sign of fraying ties between the Russian government and foreign correspondents
Four weeks after Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Moscow has taken aim at other American reporters working in the country, the latest sign of how…
by Jon Allsop
In the early nineteen eighties, Andrew Nagorski, then Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek, traveled to report from Vologda, a city in a famed dairy region that was struggling with local supply. Nagorski had to register his trip with the authorities, who would usually get someone to “glom…
Last week, the news broke that Russia had arrested a credentialed Wall Street Journal reporter and charged him with spying. Former US journalist Andrew Nagorski was expelled from Russia in 1982 when the Soviet government became angry with his reporting. He joins Boyd to discuss his case vs. Evan…
‘Once They Put Spying on the Table, There’s No Wiggle Room.’
An American journalist who was expelled from the Soviet Union explains why the arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Moscow bodes ill for relations with the Kremlin.
he news that another American had been arrested and jailed in…
These 11 outstanding WWII titles are the best of the year, offering perspectives that will feel fresh to even the most devoted history buffs. Including the latest from
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AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The Amarillo Public Library is set to host a series of lectures and films titled, Americans and the Holocaust.
According to the release, this series of lectures and films is designed to bring a greater understanding of certain events and themes that will be covered in the…
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom by Andrew Nagorski(Simon & Schuster)
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“Andrew Nagorski spikes his thriller with truly terrifying notes… Shortly before the dash for freedom, two of Freud’s children, Anna and Martin, were questioned by the Gestapo… They…
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In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria, which was absorbed into Hitler’s Third Reich. Anticipating this, many Jews fled Austria. Sigmund Freud, however, stayed in his hometown of Vienna, even as prominent people who were close to him undertook a…
In this episode, Anne Marie Talks to Andrew Nagorski about his new book Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom. The book recounts the dramatic true story of Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria, why he waited until after the Nazi…
By Amanda Kondolojy
Sigmund Freud is a towering figure in popular culture, not only as the founder of psychoanalysis but also as a key originator of broad 20th-century ideas regarding self, sexuality, culture and more. However, it was another part of Freud’s life that caught the eye of St.…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known to most as AOC, is personally responsible for a cottage industry of funny memes, video parodies, and ROFL (i.e., rolling on the floor laughing) jokes, all at her expense. Would you expect anything different from a beautiful woman who, with a sense of authority,…
Based on the bestseller lists of recent months, books by Donald Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr, former defense secretary Mark Esper, and White House factotum Kellyanne Conway have amassed readers galore.
I was not among them.
Here’s a list of some books I read in the first half of 2022…
The Florida First Amendment Foundation fights for open government through our powerful, but always threatened, Sunshine laws. For fund-raising, we're holding an online auction of books (and virtual appearances) by prominent Florida authors.
Der US-Autor Andrew Nagorski bereitet ein Buch über Sigmund Freuds Flucht nach England vor und wer aller diesem dabei geholfen hat.
Eigentlich liegt das Manuskript schon beim Lektor in New York. Doch Andrew Nagorski ist – da man als geimpfter Amerikaner wieder nach Europa fliegen darf – noch einmal…
While American Jews debated the meaning of the holiday after the Holocaust, Hitler’s top ‘Jew-baiter’ — Nazi publisher Julius Streicher — invoked Purim from the Nuremberg gallows
At the gallows on October 16, 1946, the hanging of “Der Stürmer” publisher Julius Streicher did not go as planned.…
The reportage "Let's drown" by Wojciech Bojanowski and the reportage "We, the nation" directed by Ewa Ewart and Jacek Stawiski won the Golden Dolphins at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards 2020 festival. The Golden Dolphins at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards are awarded to the…
Nagorski Gets Freudian at S&S
Hitlerland author and former Newsweek journalist Andrew Nagorski sold To Die in Freedom: Sigmund Freud’s Unlikely Rescue Squad to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster. Robert Gottlieb at Trident Media Group represented Nagorski, selling North American rights to the…
Davis, CA—Jan Karski is close to becoming a household name thanks to many prominent people who have been inspired by his story and make every effort to disseminate the Karski legacy. The latest is Andrew Nagorski—an award-winning journalist and author, who spent more than three decades as a foreign…
Oskar Groening, dubbed the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, had appealed to have sentence suspended on health grounds
A German court has ruled that a 96-year-old former Nazi SS guard known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” is fit enough to serve his four-year prison sentence.
Oskar Groening’s case is one of…
Guest speaker Andrew Nagorski will present “The Nazi Hunters” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2487 A1A South.
More than seven decades after the end of WWII, the era of the Nazi hunters is drawing to a close. Their full saga can now be told.
Nagorski’s book, “The Nazi…
In remembrance of Yom Hashoah, (the Holocaust) Temple Bet Yam will host award-winning author and journalist Andrew Nagorski for a discussion of his lastest book “The Nazi Hunters.”
The program will be at 2 p.m. April 23 at Temple Bet Yam, 2055 Wildwood Drive.
Nagorski, who now lives in St.…
Former Newsweek foreign correspondent Andrew Nagorski (Hitlerland) sold North American rights to a new book about Germany during World War II, The Year Germany Lost the War: 1941. Trident Media Group’s Robert Gottlieb brokered the sale with Alice Mayhew at Simon & Schuster. The book chronicles…
Journalist and author Andrew Nagorski will reveal the fascinating true story of “The Nazi Hunters” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at a Book Talk Cafe program at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library.
Nagorski’s book focuses on the small band of men and women who refused to allow the crimes of the Third Reich…
Award-winning journalist and author Andrew Nagorski (The Nazi Hunters) in conversation with Eli Rosenbaum, Director, Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy, US Department of Justice and former Director of the Office of Special Investigations, which was primarily responsible for identifying,…
Andrew Nagorski’s engrossing “The Nazi Hunters” (Simon & Schuster, 393 pages, $30) is the story of the men and women—very different and often at odds with one another—who after 1945 pursued the architects and the executors of the Holocaust. At first they were spurred by a simple thirst for…
The sentencing in Germany this year of a 94-year-old former SS guard at the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, and the death in July of Auschwitz survivor and chronicler Elie Wiesel make publication of this book exceptionally timely.
Its author is Andrew Nagorski, a onetime Newseek bureau…
This October, bestselling authors and screenwriters from across the nation will gather in Winter Park for the first annual Authors in the Park book festival.
Mary Gail Coffee of the Winter Park Public Library said that the Authors in the Park book festival will celebrate Orlando’s love of…
Joseph Harmatz, a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor who led a band of self-proclaimed “avengers” in poisoning 3,000 loaves of bread for German prisoners after World War II, an act that he regarded as rightful retribution for the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews, died Sept. 22 at his home in Tel Aviv.…
We are so thrilled to announce our special guest for our screening of The People vs. Fritz Bauer on Wednesday Night! Award-winning journalist and author of six books, Andrew Nagorski, will join us via Skype following the film!
His most recent book, The Nazi Hunters, has received rave reviews…
By Emelia Hitchner
The last living remnants of the Holocaust, the notorious Nazi war criminals and those who doggedly hunted them, have all but faded away.
Still, the tales of the monsters and heroes of World War II riddle the pages of history, specifically the books of author and St. Augustine…
The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and other concentration camps that produced the most “astronomical body count in history.”
In June, former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning, 94, was convicted of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to five…
The death this month of Elie Wiesel left a gaping moral and historical void that widens daily as the ranks of the generation of Holocaust survivors continues to thin. But in The Nazi Hunters, Andrew Nagorski fills that void, blending key documentary evidence with over 50 interviews of central…
“[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice.” —The Washington Post
More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety.
After the…
“I’ve tried to make sure that people don’t forget what happened,” concentration camp survivor and famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal told author Andrew Nagorski in their last conversation before Wiesenthal died in 2005.
In his latest history, “The Nazi Hunters,” Nagorski accomplishes that goal as…
Criminals are never beyond the law – but how far should we go in persecuting Nazi officers, guards and soldiers 71 years after the end of World War II?
Nagorski's book energetically tells some of the most famous stories of the quest to push against that historical complacency. It's an epic tale, as…
Detailed, dramatic, and at times gripping, Andrew Nagorski’s “The Nazi Hunters” looks at about a dozen men and women who kept pushing at a time when the world was trying to move on. Hunters like Simon Wiesenthal and Serge and Ben Klarsfeld are characters here, as are Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie,…
Ten top-ranking Nazis were sent to the gallows in 1946 by the international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg. Many more escaped justice for decades or forever, some by taking their own lives, some by going into hiding and some merely because all but a few dedicated avengers lost interest in them.…
BY FREDERICK TAYLOR
Between 1618 and 1648, millions of civilians died from violence, famine and pestilence as armies ranged across Central Europe in a savage conflict about power and religion. When the treaty was signed that ended the Thirty Years’ War, one famous clause granted perpetua oblivio et…
Following the end of World War II, the U.S. and its European allies pivoted immediately to a new mission: to stop the spread of Soviet Communism. The Cold War had begun, Nazis who would have been tried as war criminals suddenly became key resources in the fight against the communists, and the…
Earlier this week, Andrew Nagorski divulged the advantage of spreading the word about your research. With the release of his sixth book, The Nazi Hunters, this week, Andrew is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The ProsenPeople.
Any…
Andrew Nagorski, author of 2012’s Hitlerland, digs into the end of an era in The Nazi Hunters, a historical biography that chronicles the best-known and lesser-known hunters and their hunted more than 70 years after the end of World War II and the closing of Auschwitz and the other concentration…
What Nazi Hunters Reveal About the Way We See History
Lily Rothman, Time
A new book goes inside a chapter of history that's about to end
As trials of former Nazis wend their way through the German legal system, as Eliza Gray explores in the latest issue of TIME, everyone involved knows there is…
After the Nuremberg trials concluded and the Cold War began, most of the victors in World War II turned their attention elsewhere, too preoccupied to finish prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Lower-ranking Nazi officials blended in with the rest of Europe as people across the continent embarked upon…
There is a Zelig-like quality to Andrew Nagorski’s “The Nazi Hunters.” More often than not, in a saga spanning decades and continents, Nagorski has been there, interviewing the men and women pursuing the worst villains of the Holocaust.
Many of the stories he recounts, from the long-delayed capture…
Andrew Nagorski’s The Nazi Hunters comes at a significant point, at the juncture between living memory and the historical record. Death, rather than the courts, now claims the last Nazi criminals — as well as those who labored for decades to bring them to justice.
Nagorski has had long experience…
Andrew Nagorski is the author of Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters, released this week. Andrew is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The ProsenPeople.
As a journalist, I had a deeply ingrained instinct not to share too much information…
Andrew Nagorski writes an exhaustive account of those who continue to go after Nazi war criminals.
Seven decades after the end of World War II, at least one Nazi hunter remains active.
For a campaign called Operation Last Chance, Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Israel office of the Simon…
Bringing Nazi criminals to justice has been a counter-cultural pursuit, both immediately after the war and today
As Germany closes the book on Shoah-related trials, author Andrew Nagorski probes a seven-decade saga in his new book, ‘The Nazi Hunters’
“One-third detective, one-third historian, one…
Andrew Nagorski’s latest book, The Nazi Hunters, (Simon & Schuster) will be released in May with several events in New York City. Nagorski, EWI’s former vice president of communications and public policy, will speak at the Overseas Press Club of America, 747 Third Ave., on May 18, at 6:00 p.m…
Major Wilhelm Trapp, who led of one of the most notorious Nazi killing squads in Poland, once said to his driver, “If this Jewish business is ever avenged on earth, then have mercy on us Germans.”
Most Nazis never did meet justice on this earth. That even a few did is largely thanks to a small…
Centerpiece Film at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival: The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Philadelphia PremiereDate: Monday, April 18Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Kimmel Center for Performing ArtsDirector: Lars KraumeGenre: Narrative (based on a true story)Country: GermanyYear: 2015Running Time: 105…
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The 1920s and 1930s were key to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and “if people had been paying attention during those two decades, this whole thing – the entire Holocaust – could have been prevented,” author Andrew Nagorski told an audience at the Valley of…
West Point, NY— On May 1 Andrew Nagorski, a renowned author and journalist, and a former foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek, gave an engaging presentation on Jan Karski at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, NY, at the 2015 Annual Kosciuszko Conference “For Your…
Airing several time this week on the Smithsonian Channel, the documentary based in large part on the book, "The Greatest Battle," where Andy provides commentary throughout the film.
There’s a typical path for the people who consider themselves readers.
The first milestone, after ABCs have been learnt, is the time when fifth graders start reading eighth grade level work to maximize AR Reading points – this is the time of “Wind in the Willows,” “Harry Potter,” and for those who…
The title of my book comes from the term American correspondents in Germany in the 30s used among themselves, but fascinating to see this JTA mention in a 1934 story from Jerusalem: "Local modistes flung their heart and soul into new window decorations, particularly the enterprising newcomers from…
Warsaw was the site of the annual meeting of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) under the direction of Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk of the Press Club Polska. Jarek is an energetic man who ran the meetings, planned the programs and even acted as tour guide on excursions in Warsaw and Gdansk…
LONDON – Helmer-producer Roland Emmerich is to develop a miniseries based on the life of Lawrence of Arabia for FremantleMedia Intl.
Emmerich, best known for “Independence Day” and the upcoming “White House Down,” is developing the series with Marc Frydman (“Straw Dogs,” “Murder in the First,” “…
New Zealand’s TVNZ has signed a pre-sale deal for a new Australian drama that FremantleMedia International will be launching at MipTV next week.
Wentworth (10x60′), a FremantleMedia Australia production, is due to premier on Foxtel’s SoHo channel in Australia in May this year. The show is a reboot…
Andrew Nagorski, a former Newsweek correspondent who was stationed in Bonn and Berlin, told an audience during a recent United States Holocaust Memorial Museum program at B'nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton that he didn't give much thought to what it must have been like for his American…
American Idol and X Factor producer FremantleMedia has named former HIT Entertainment COO Sangeeta Desai to the combined roles of COO and CFO with immediate effect. The exec will be based in London and report to Fremantle CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz. Desai has also been named to the board of directors.…
From the legacy of British colonialism and the possibility of Hitler's assassination to Turkey's role in the Arab Middle East and Afghanistan's cotton fields, The Globalist Bookshelf crisscrossed the world and spanned centuries of history in 2012. As a year-end special, we present ten of the best…
From Tina Brown to Andrew Sullivan to Michael Tomasky, our writers and editors pick the favorite books they read this year.
The Orphan Master’s SonBy Adam Johnson
Into the sinister, bizarre kingdom of North Korea Johnson leads us with flair.
On Saudi ArabiaBy Karen Eliot House
One of the most…
EXCLUSIVE: In one of FremantleMedia‘s highest-profile scripted projects to date, the American Idol and X Factorproducer has teamed with veteran feature and TV writer/producer Marshall Herskovitz for a drama series project inspired by the book Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski published earlier this…
Andrew Nagorski, EWI vice president and director of public policy, was awarded with a Tikkun Olam award from Haiti Holocaust Survivors, an organization seeking to explore the Haiti Jewish refugee experience by connecting with those who fled Europe to found safe haven in Haiti, as well as their…
Philip K Dick's Hugo Award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle is to be adapted for digital channel Syfy.
The novel will be adapted into a four-hour miniseries. Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions will produce, alongside Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and FremantleMedia…
On June 20, Andrew Nagorski appeared on PBS's NewsHour. On June 21, his book, Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (Simon &Schuster), jumped to #81 from #6,775. The book also made a jump on Kindle, going to #369 from #11,590.
Andrew Nagorski - "How the World Sees the United States"
Who: Andrew Nagorski, Vice President and Director of Public Policy, The EastWest Institute
When: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (Dinner)
Where: Paradise Valley Country Club
By PCFR Members George Sheer & John Roberts
Registration for this…
Vice President and Director of Public Policy at the EastWest Institute Andrew Nagorski speaks at the 30th Anniversary of Solidarity celebration in Los Angeles with Former President Lech Walesa at the Museum Of Tolerance on December 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
The Soviet Foreign Ministry today summoned Andrew Nagorski, Moscow correspondent for Newsweek magazine, and informed him that he was being stripped of his accreditation and given ''a reasonable time'' to leave the country. It was the first expulsion of an American reporter since 1977. An official…
