Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Smith College, she served as the researcher for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors, Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education at Harvard University in 1995 and returned to the Holocaust Museum in 1996. 

Her first book, SALVAGED PAGES: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2002), won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book, which aired on MTV in May 2005. The film was awarded the Jewish Image Award for Best Television Special by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and was nominated for two Emmy awards.  

In the fall of 2015, she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of SALVAGED PAGES, and worked with the educational nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves to develop interdisciplinary educational materials for the book designed for middle and high school teachers. Over the past 15 years, she has crisscrossed the country and traveled abroad to speak about SALVAGED PAGES to teachers, students and the general public.

She is the author of TWENTY-SIX SECONDS: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination (Twelve Books, November 2016).