Alexandra Zapruder

Alexandra Zapruder is an author and educator who began her career on the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where she contributed to exhibitions and earned an Ed.M. from Harvard University in 1995. She published her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, in 2002, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and her second book, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, in 2016, detailing her grandfather Abraham Zapruder's home movie of President Kennedy's assassination. She serves as Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and has curated exhibitions on young diarists during war and genocide.[1][2][3]

Holocaust History Memoir Nonfiction