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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations
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    Lily’s Promise: Hold­ing On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Sto­ry for All Generations
    Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
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    Mala’s Cat: A Mem­oir of Sur­vival in World War II
    Mala Kacenberg
    Cover of Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
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    Pil­lar of Salt: A Daugh­ter’s Life in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Anna Salton Eisen
    Cover of Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
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    Alias Anna: A True Sto­ry of Out­wit­ting the Nazis
    Susan Hood
    Greg Daw­son
    Cover of Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
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    Why Is Every­body Yelling?: Grow­ing Up in My Immi­grant Family
    Marisabina Russo
    Cover of The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
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    The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remark­able Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Courage in Auschwitz
    Maya Lee, Magda Hellinger
    Cover of Golem Girl: A Memoir
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    Golem Girl: A Memoir
    Riva Lehrer
    Cover of I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
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    I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writ­ing Myself Home
    Jami Atten­berg
    Cover of The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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    The Genius Under the Table: Grow­ing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
    Eugene Yelchin
    Cover of Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz
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    Always Remem­ber Your Name: A True Sto­ry of Fam­i­ly and Sur­vival in Auschwitz
    Andra and Tatiana Bucci, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
    Cover of Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation
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    Free as a Jew: A Per­son­al Mem­oir of Nation­al Self-Liberation
    Ruth Wisse
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    An Espe­cial­ly Good View: Watch­ing His­to­ry Happen
    Peter Osnos
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    When Words Are Not Enough

    Joshua M. Greene
    January 10, 2022
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    The 23rd Psalm: A Holo­caust Memoir
    George Salton with Anna Salton Eisen
    Cover of What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets
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    What They Did­n’t Burn: Uncov­er­ing My Father’s Holo­caust Secrets
    Mel Layt­ner
    Cover of The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust
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    The Last Let­ter: A Father’s Strug­gle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Karen Baum Gordon
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