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Deborah Vadas Levison

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Crime, Nonfiction, Memoir

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For as long as I can remember I’ve dreamed of being an author, the same way some little kids dream of being ballerinas or Major Leaguers. Well, I don’t pirouette, and I sure can’t hit a ball, but from time to time I do come up with a pretty good metaphor.

I’m pretty sure my love of storytelling began one summer night years ago, as I sat by a camp bonfire and listened to a counselor tell a ghost story, The Monkey’s Paw, which made my heart pound and my imagination run wild. The memory still makes me shiver.

Now, I’m thrilled to share my first book with the world. It's a true crime with echoes of the Holocaust, called THE CRATE: A Story of War, a Murder and Justice.

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	The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice 3.99 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Nest of Snakes 4.46 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Crime Writers Volume One: The Crate, His Garden, Inconvenience Gone by Deborah Vadas Levison (Goodreads Author), Anne K. Howard (Goodreads Author), Diane Marger Moore it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Deborah Levison voted on a poll in the group Jewish Book Club What book written by one of our author members would you like to read in the group in June 2025? She voted for: The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice ...more
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Deborah Levison made a comment in the group Jewish Book Club — Nominations for our book for June 2025 topic " Hello and happy Pesach to all! I'd love for you to consider my first book, THE CRATE, a true crime/Holocaust memoir (an odd mix of genres, I know.) It ...more "
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“Apparently Solarcaine, a topical anesthetic, is meant to be used only in small quantities. Peter’s inflamed skin had absorbed copious amounts of the drug and it had knocked him out.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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“the large group of Haftlings ended up in a factory in Bochum, Germany,”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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“But she wanted me to live the best life, wherever it took me. To find happiness wherever I could. That’s all a mother can ask.”
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“I listened to a soft voice recite the names of the one and a half million Jewish children who had perished, the voice that took weeks to finish a single recitation.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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“Ironically, thousands of prisoners died terrible deaths after liberation because they could not digest food.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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“the large group of Haftlings ended up in a factory in Bochum, Germany,”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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“the factory warden had little choice but to send the bodies to the local cemetery to be disposed of during that period. Six Haftlings died within that time frame. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of victims of Nazi atrocities across Europe had been dumped into mass graves, but, according to what we read next, this local cemetery superintendent took it upon himself to do something. Something extraordinary. This cemetery superintendent – this good, decent man – took each of those six deceased Bochum factory workers and laid him in an individual, marked grave in the Wiemelhausen Jewish Cemetery.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

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