Individual Author Record
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General InformationName: Milton J NieuwsmaPen Name: None Genre: Non-Fiction Audience: Adult; Young Adult; Born: 1941 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota-- Website -- http://www.midlandauthors.com/nieuwsma.html -- Milton J Nieuwsma on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=milton+j+nieuwsma |
Illinois Connection
Milton Nieuwsma received his Master's Degree in communication at the University of Illinois-Springfield, and a year later became president of Grant Hospital in Chicago.Biographical and Professional Information
Nieuwsma started his writing career as a reporter for the Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel while in high school. After graduating with an English degree from Hope College in 1963, he worked as a public information officer at Wayne State University in Detroit and hosted a weekly radio program, "The Fifth Freedom," on WQRS-FM, a Detroit fine arts station. He also wrote programs for a public television series, "Our America," which later was canceled for lack of funding.In 1969 Nieuwsma began a series of public relations and fund-raising jobs that took him away from his first love, writing, for the next decade. In the late 1970s he began contributing historical features and travel articles to the Chicago Tribune. In 1990 he took an administrative position at New Brunswick Seminary in New Brunswick, N.J. and taught journalism at Rutgers University. While in New Brunswick, Nieuwsma met Tova Friedman, believed to be the youngest survivor of Auschwitz, which inspired him to write Kinderlager (published 1998). Friedman is one of three children – all Auschwitz survivors – featured in the book.Published Works 
Titles At Your Library
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Kinderlager: An Oral History of Young Holocaust Survivors ISBN: 0823413586 Holiday House. 1998 Offers the factual accounts of three young girls who lived in the children's section, |
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Surviving Auschwitz: Children of the Shoah ISBN: 1596870729 Ibooks, Inc.. 2005 Surviving Auschwitz tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler's most notorious death camp. With dramatic photographs, Tova Friedman, Frieda Tenebaum, and Rachel Hyams document the story in their own words. |
