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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of A Ship in the Harbor: Mother and Me, Book II
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    A Ship in the Har­bor: Moth­er and Me, Book II
    Julian Padowicz
    Cover of My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World
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    My Foot­print: Car­ry­ing the Weight of the World
    Jeff Garlin
    Cover of A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
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    A Promise at Sobi­bor: A Jew­ish Boy’s Sto­ry of Revolt and Sur­vival in Nazi-Occu­pied Poland
    Philip Bialowitz with Joseph Bialowitz
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    Becom­ing Alice: A Memoir
    Alice Rene
    Cover of House Rules: A Memoir
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    House Rules: A Memoir
    Rachel Sontag
    Cover of A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy
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    A Child Al Con­fi­no: The True Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Boy and His Moth­er in Mus­solin­i’s Italy
    Eric Lamet
    Cover of Evading the Nazis: The Story of a Hidden Child in Normandy
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    Evad­ing the Nazis: The Sto­ry of a Hid­den Child in Normandy
    Leo Michel Abrami
    Cover of Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
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    Beg, Bor­row, Steal: A Writer’s Life
    Michael Greenberg
    Cover of No Goodbyes: A Father-Daughter Memoir of Love, War and Resurrection
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    No Good­byes: A Father-Daugh­ter Mem­oir of Love, War and Resurrection
    Naava Piatka
    Cover of Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century
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    Mem­oirs of a Grand­moth­er: Scenes from the Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of Rus­sia in the Nine­teenth Century
    Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
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    The House on Crash Cor­ner and Oth­er Unavoid­able Calamities
    Mindy Green­stein
    Cover of The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir
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    The Last Jew of Tre­blin­ka: A Memoir
    Chil Rajchman; Solon Beinfeld, trans.
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    Aaron’s Jour­ney: From Slave to Master
    Howard Herskowitz
    Cover of I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth
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    I Choose Life: Two Linked Sto­ries of Holo­caust Sur­vival and Rebirth
    Jerry L. Jennings and Sol and Goldie Finkelstein, with Joseph S. Finkelstein
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    The Dev­il’s Work­shop: A Mem­oir of the Nazi Coun­ter­feit­ing Operation
    Adolf Burger
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    Annie’s Ghosts: A Jour­ney Into a Fam­i­ly Secret
    Steve Luxenberg
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