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Autobiography & Memoir

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Non­fic­tion
Auschwitz Report
Pri­mo Levi
Cover of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Non­fic­tion
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn 
Cover of Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
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Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
Danya Rut­ten­berg
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Non­fic­tion
Lone­ly Soldier
Adam Harmon
Cover of Somewhere in Germany
Non­fic­tion
Some­where in Germany
Stefanie Zweig; Marlies Comjean, trans.
Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
Non­fic­tion
My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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Non­fic­tion
We Are On Our Own
Miri­am Katin
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The Last Eye­wit­ness­es: Chil­dren of the Holo­caust Speak: Vol. 2
Jakob Gutenbaum, Agnieszka Latala, eds.
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Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Jessica Queller
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It Hap­pened in Italy: Untold Sto­ries of How the Peo­ple of Italy Defied the Hor­rors of the Holocaust
Elizabeth Bettina
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Refugees in Switzer­land Dur­ing the Holo­caust: A Mem­oir of Child­hood and History
Frieda Johles Forman
Cover of We are Going to Pick Potatoes: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story
Non­fic­tion
We are Going to Pick Pota­toes: Nor­way and the Holo­caust, the Untold Story
Irene Levin Berman
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Non­fic­tion
Life as a Visitor
Angella M. Nazarian
Cover of The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
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The Prime Min­is­ters: An Inti­mate Nar­ra­tive of Israeli Leadership
Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro.
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Chil­dren’s
Sur­viv­ing the Angel of Death
Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
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Arnold Daghani’s Mem­o­ries of Mikhailowka: The Illus­trat­ed Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
Deborah Schultz and Edward Timms, eds.
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