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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    The Dream: A Memoir
    Harry Bernstein
    Cover of Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance
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    Until Our Last Breath: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Love and Par­ti­san Resistance
    Michael Bart and Laurel Corona
    Cover of The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List
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    The Road to Res­cue: The Untold Sto­ry of Schindler’s List
    Mietek Pemper; David Dollenmayer, trans.
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    Have You No Shame?
    Rachel Shuk­ert
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    Ace of Spades
    David Matthews
    Cover of Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine
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    Ambiva­lence: Adven­tures in Israel and Palestine
    Jonathan Garfinkel
    Cover of The Aaronsohn Saga
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    The Aaron­sohn Saga
    Shmuel Katz
    Cover of Afterimages: A Family Memoir
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    After­im­ages: A Fam­i­ly Memoir
    Car­ol Ascher
    Cover of The Journal of Hélène Berr
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    The Jour­nal of Hélène Berr
    Hélène Berr; David Bellos, trans.
    Cover of Survival in Shanghai: The Journals of Fred Marcus 1939-49
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    Sur­vival in Shang­hai: The Jour­nals of Fred Mar­cus 1939 – 49
    Audrey Friedman Marcus; Rena Krasno
    Cover of Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai
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    Strange Haven: A Jew­ish Child­hood in Wartime Shanghai
    Sigmund Tobias
    Cover of The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
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    The Occu­pied Gar­den: Recov­er­ing the Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly in the War-Torn Netherlands
    Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski
    Cover of Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
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    Inside the Gas Cham­bers: Eight Months in the Son­derkom­man­do of Auschwitz
    Shlomo Venezia
    Cover of From Siberia to America: A Story of Survival and Success
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    From Siberia to Amer­i­ca: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Success
    Boruch B. Frustajer; Antony Polonsky, fwd.
    Cover of Words That Burn Within Me: Faith, Values, Survival
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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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