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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    The Let­ters That Nev­er Came
    Mauricio Rosencof; Louise B. Popkin, trans.; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
    Cover of Oil: Israel's Covert Efforts to Secure Oil Supplies
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    Oil: Israel’s Covert Efforts to Secure Oil Supplies
    Zvi Alexander
    Cover of The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours: A Memoir of the Second World War
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    The Labyrinth of Dan­ger­ous Hours: A Mem­oir of the Sec­ond World War
    Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon
    Cover of Guarded by Angels: How My Father and Uncle Survived Hitler and Cheated Stalin
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    Guard­ed by Angels: How My Father and Uncle Sur­vived Hitler and Cheat­ed Stalin
    Alan Elsner; Foreword by David Cesarani
    Cover of And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Story of a Certain Loneliness
    Non­fic­tion
    And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Sto­ry of a Cer­tain Loneliness
    Joanna Wiszniewicz; Regina Grol, trans.
    Non­fic­tion
    We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
    Willis Barn­stone
    Cover of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Non­fic­tion
    How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Danny Goldberg
    Cover of Danger on My Doorstep: The Anita Flora Powitzer Story
    Chil­dren’s
    Dan­ger on My Doorstep: The Ani­ta Flo­ra Pow­itzer Story
    Linda Schubert; Mary Beatty-Brooks, illus.
    Chil­dren’s
    I Will Plant You Like a Lilac Tree: A Mem­oir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
    Laura Hillman
    Cover of Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
    Poet­ry
    Body of Dimin­ish­ing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
    Joan Seliger Sidney
    Cover of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
    Non­fic­tion
    Jerusalem: Chron­i­cles from the Holy City
    Guy Delisle
    Non­fic­tion
    Love in a World of Sor­row: A Teenage Girl’s Holo­caust Memoirs
    Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
    Cover of My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
    Non­fic­tion
    My Fathers’ Hous­es: Mem­oir of a Family
    Steven V. Roberts
    Cover of With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto
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    With a Yel­low Star and a Red Cross: A Doc­tor in the Lodz Ghetto
    Arnold Mostowicz; Antony Polonsky, fwd.; Henia and Nochem Reinhartz, trans.
    Cover of The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
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    The Tiger in the Attic: Mem­o­ries of the Kinder­trans­port and Grow­ing Up English
    Edith Milton
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    Black Sea­sons
    Michal Glowinski; Marci Shore, trans.
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