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Autobiography & Memoir

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Have You No Shame?
Rachel Shuk­ert
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Past Imper­fect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russ­ian Artist
Grisha Bruskin; Alice Nakhimovsky, trans.
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The Aaron­sohn Saga
Shmuel Katz
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Ace of Spades
David Matthews
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Ambiva­lence: Adven­tures in Israel and Palestine
Jonathan Garfinkel
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After­im­ages: A Fam­i­ly Memoir
Car­ol Ascher
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The Jour­nal of Hélène Berr
Hélène Berr; David Bellos, trans.
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Sur­vival in Shang­hai: The Jour­nals of Fred Mar­cus 1939 – 49
Audrey Friedman Marcus; Rena Krasno
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Strange Haven: A Jew­ish Child­hood in Wartime Shanghai
Sigmund Tobias
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The Occu­pied Gar­den: Recov­er­ing the Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly in the War-Torn Netherlands
Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski
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Inside the Gas Cham­bers: Eight Months in the Son­derkom­man­do of Auschwitz
Shlomo Venezia
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From Siberia to Amer­i­ca: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Success
Boruch B. Frustajer; Antony Polonsky, fwd.
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Words That Burn With­in Me: Faith, Val­ues, Survival
Hilda Stern Cohen
Cover of My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
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My Ger­many: A Jew­ish Writer Returns to the World His Par­ents Escaped
Lev Raphael
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A Lucky Child: A Mem­oir of Sur­viv­ing Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Thomas Buergenthal; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
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When You Lie About Your Age The Ter­ror­ists Win: Reflec­tion on Look­ing in the Mirror
Car­ol Leifer
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