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    Cover of My Mother's War: A Holocaust Survivor's Tribute to an Extraordinary Woman
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    My Moth­er’s War: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Trib­ute to an Extra­or­di­nary Woman
    Michael Fryd
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    Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
    Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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    The Klans­man­’s Son: My Jour­ney from White Nation­al­ism to Antiracism
    Adri­anne Black (for­mer­ly R. Derek Black)
    Cover of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance
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    Nev­er Again Will I Vis­it Auschwitz: A Graph­ic Fam­i­ly Mem­oir of Trau­ma & Inheritance
    Ari Richter
    Cover of Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir
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    Death Trip: A Post-Holo­caust Psy­che­del­ic Memoir
    Seth Lor­inczi
    Cover of Schlepping Across The Nile: Collected Stories
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    Schlep­ping Across The Nile: Col­lect­ed Stories
    Aaron Zevy
    Cover of Feh: A Memoir
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    Feh: A Memoir
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
    Cover of The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
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    The Girl Who Sang: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Hope and Survival
    Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus.
    Cover of Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer and Other Inconveniences
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    Near­ly Depart­ed: Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences
    Gila Pfef­fer
    Cover of Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
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    Ire­na’s Gift: An Epic WWII Mem­oir of Sis­ters, Secrets, and Survival
    Karen Kirsten
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    Just City: Grow­ing Up on the Upper West Side When Hous­ing Was a Human Right
    Jen­nifer Baum
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    See­ing Through: A Chron­i­cle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
    Ricky Ian Gordon
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    “Crunchy Chords”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ricky Ian Gordon

    Bob Gold­farb
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    They Were Good Ger­mans Once: A Mem­oir: My Jew­ish Émi­gré Family
    Eve­lyn Toynton
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    Replay: Mem­oir of an Uproot­ed Family
    Jor­dan Mechner
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    Lotus Girl: My Life at the Cross­roads of Bud­dhism and America
    Helen Tworkov
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