Susan B. Katz

About the Author

As the granddaughter of Eastern-European, Jewish immigrants—some of whom came through the Netherlands—Susan B. Katz is deeply dedicated to keeping Holocaust stories alive. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling author of dozens of children’s books; her body of work includes biographies of The Story of Jane Goodall, The Story of Albert Einstein, and The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (all bestsellers), among others. She has also launched and ran Facebook and Instagram’s author verticals. ANGELS OF AMSTERDAM is her first work of narrative non-fiction for adults. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Esther Shaya is the author of two prior books, both published exclusively in Dutch—Harry & Sieny: Surviving in Resistance and Love and Just Wait: The Heroic Life of Henriette Pimentel. Since 2015, Shaya has been a board member, editor, and author of the “Jewish Houses Foundation,” which publishes one book each year on prewar stories about the Jewish community in the Netherlands. Shaya has been interviewed on national radio and TV and has been a guest speaker about Henriëtte Pimentel’s daycare center numerous times in the Netherlands, United States, and Australia. She lives in Amsterdam.