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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Sylvie
    Sylvie Kantorovitz
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    For­get Prayers, Bring Cake: A Sin­gle Wom­an’s Guide to Grieving
    Meris­sa Nathan Gerson
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    Fic­tion
    Sutzkev­er: Essen­tial Prose
    Avrom Sutzkever, Zackary Sholem Berger (Translator)
    Cover of Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
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    End­pa­pers: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry of Books, War, Escape, and Home
    Alexan­der Wolff
    Cover of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
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    Plun­der: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly Prop­er­ty and Nazi Treasure
    Men­achem Kaiser
    Cover of Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
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    Eva and Eve: A Search for My Moth­er’s Lost Child­hood and What a War Left Behind
    Julie Metz
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    Red Rock Baby Candy
    Shi­ra Spector
    Cover of Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert
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    Doc­tor on Call: Cher­nobyl Respon­der, Jew­ish Refugee, Radi­a­tion Expert
    Alla Shapiro
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    Soles of a Survivor
    Nhi Aron­heim
    Cover of The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
    Non­fic­tion
    The Empa­thy Diaries: A Memoir
    Sher­ry Turkle
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    Poet­ry
    Wolf Lamb Bomb
    Aviya Kush­n­er
    Interview

    ‘Resis­tance in Hol­land’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sel­ma van de Perre

    Marc Katz
    May 10, 2021
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    My Name Is Sel­ma: The Remark­able Mem­oir of a Jew­ish Resis­tance Fight­er and Ravens­brück Survivor
    Sel­ma van de Perre
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    Spilt Milk
    Court­ney Zoffness
    Cover of This Is Not My Memoir
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    This Is Not My Memoir
    André Gregory, Todd London
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    Excerpt: In Dreams Together

    Leslie Fazekas
    April 19, 2021
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