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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Where We Buried The Sun: One Wom­an’s Gulag Story
    Alla Tumanov; Gust Olson, trans.
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    Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
    Ben Karlin, ed.
    Cover of Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir
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    Home is Where You Find It: A Memoir
    Benjamin Hirsch
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    Please Excuse My Daughter
    Julie Klam
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    The Jews of Silence: A Per­son­al Report on Sovi­et Jewry
    Elie Wiesel
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    Dough: A Memoir
    Mort Zachter
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    Broth­er­hood of Warriors
    Aaron Cohen; Douglas Century
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    Grow­ing Up At Grossinger’s
    Tania Grossinger
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    No Words to Say Goodbye
    Raimonda Kopelnitsky and Kelli Pryor
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    Hur­ry Down Sunshine
    Michael Greenberg
    Cover of The Dream: A Memoir
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    The Dream: A Memoir
    Harry Bernstein
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    Until Our Last Breath: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Love and Par­ti­san Resistance
    Michael Bart and Laurel Corona
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    The Road to Res­cue: The Untold Sto­ry of Schindler’s List
    Mietek Pemper; David Dollenmayer, trans.
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    Have You No Shame?
    Rachel Shuk­ert
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    Past Imper­fect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russ­ian Artist
    Grisha Bruskin; Alice Nakhimovsky, trans.
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    The Aaron­sohn Saga
    Shmuel Katz
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