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Elaine Elin­son

Elaine Elin­son is coau­thor of the award-win­ning Wher­ev­er There’s a Fight: How Run­away Slaves, Suf­frag­ists, Immi­grants, Strik­ers, and Poets Shaped Civ­il Lib­er­ties in Cal­i­for­nia.

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I Seek a Kind Per­son: My Father, Sev­en Chil­dren, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Julian Borg­er
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The Sur­vivor: How I Made it Through Six Con­cen­tra­tion Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter 
Josef Lewkow­icz
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The Piano Play­er of Budapest: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope, and Music
Rox­anne de Bastion 
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One Life: The True Sto­ry of Sir Nicholas Win­ton and the Prague Kindertransport
Bar­bara Winton
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Two Wheels to Free­dom: The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape
Arthur J. Magida
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The Ghost Tattoo
Tony Bernard
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Between Two Worlds: Jew­ish War Brides after the Holocaust
Robin Judd
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Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Sav­ing Chil­dren in Ger­man-Occu­pied Paris
Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans.
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lako­ta, and an Amer­i­can Inheritance
Rebec­ca Clarren
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Rachel Shteir
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The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets
Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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Inti­mate Strangers: A His­to­ry of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
Fredric Brand­fon

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