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Autobiography & Memoir

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
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Golem Girl: A Memoir
Riva Lehrer
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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writ­ing Myself Home
Jami Atten­berg
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 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 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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These are the Devel­op­ments of the Human
Ethan Daniel Davidson
Cover of The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben's Mission to Dismantle Hate
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The Upstander: How Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mis­sion to Dis­man­tle Hate
Jori Epstein
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Let­ter to a Young Female Physi­cian: Notes from a Med­ical Life
Suzanne Koven
Cover of Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
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Asy­lum: A per­son­al, his­tor­i­cal, nat­ur­al inquiry in 103 lyric sections
Jill Bialosky
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Excerpt — When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers

Ken Krim­stein
November 15, 2021
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