Hero saved woman's family from the Nazis: Story is 'chillingly relevant' today, says author

Linda Margolin Royal, a former advertising copywriter from Australia, was apprehensive about the January 2024 release of her debut novel, "The Star on the Grave," given the rampant antisemitism worldwide today in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel.

Her book, "The Star on the Grave," is a fictional historical account of how her family was saved from the Holocaust by Chiune Sugihara, a heroic Japanese diplomat known as "the Japanese Schindler." 

While Royal was elated to learn from her publisher...