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Research Resources

When writing historical fiction, I like to include as much accuracy as possible surrounding the fictional protagonist and her inner circle of friends, family, and co-workers. This includes weather conditions, cost of living, slang and cultural vernacular, available technology, music and entertainment, hairstyles and fashion, current events that would affect the public’s day-to-day life, Jewish holidays, pop-culture, first names and surnames (both for the time period and for the country of origin), popular foods and beverages, and how World War II and the Vietnam War affected daily life. However, when writing about the Holocaust, it’s even more important to do reliable research and include only hard facts rather than hearsay or speculation. That being said, I do purposefully alter Auschwitz prisoner serial number tattoos. While my research shows that tattoos of prisoner numbers at Auschwitz concluded with number 202,499 by the time the camp was liberated in January, 1945, I’ve added an 8 to the front of tattooed numbers referenced in the Changeling Series so as not to accidentally duplicate a real Holocaust victim's number. 

In addition to a modest collection of history books on World War II, vintage medical textbooks, autobiographies of Holocaust survivors, and personal interviews of people who lived through the periods of time featured in my novels, below are several of the references I’ve used to write The Changeling of the Third Reich series…

 

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