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    Cover of My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
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    My Fathers’ Hous­es: Mem­oir of a Family
    Steven V. Roberts
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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.
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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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    On Aus­tri­an Soil: Teach­ing Those I Was Taught to Hate
    Sondra Perl
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    Clas­sic Feyn­man: All the Adven­tures of a Curi­ous Character
    Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton, ed.
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    Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
    Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
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    The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
    Nissim Rejwan
    Cover of On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900)
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    On Long Win­ter Nights: Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in a Gali­cian Town­ship (1870−1900)
    Hinde Bergner; Justin Cammy, trans. and ed.
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    Atta Girl! A Memoir
    Genie Zeiger
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    Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me
    Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
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    Say the Name: A Sur­vivor’s Tale in Prose and Poetry
    Judith H. Sherman
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    Threads: More Sto­ries from a New York Life
    Steven Schrader
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    A Zion­ist Among Palestinians
    Hillel Bardin
    Cover of An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America--A Brother and Sister Escape to Freedom During World War II
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    An Uncom­mon Jour­ney: From Vien­na to Shang­hai to Amer­i­ca – A Broth­er and Sis­ter Escape to Free­dom Dur­ing World War II
    Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs, with S.J. Hodges
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    Five Ger­manys I Have Known
    Fritz Stern
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