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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine
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    Ambiva­lence: Adven­tures in Israel and Palestine
    Jonathan Garfinkel
    Cover of The Aaronsohn Saga
    Non­fic­tion
    The Aaron­sohn Saga
    Shmuel Katz
    Cover of The Journal of Hélène Berr
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    The Jour­nal of Hélène Berr
    Hélène Berr; David Bellos, trans.
    Cover of Afterimages: A Family Memoir
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    After­im­ages: A Fam­i­ly Memoir
    Car­ol Ascher
    Cover of Survival in Shanghai: The Journals of Fred Marcus 1939-49
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    Sur­vival in Shang­hai: The Jour­nals of Fred Mar­cus 1939 – 49
    Audrey Friedman Marcus; Rena Krasno
    Cover of Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai
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    Strange Haven: A Jew­ish Child­hood in Wartime Shanghai
    Sigmund Tobias
    Cover of The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
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    The Occu­pied Gar­den: Recov­er­ing the Sto­ry of a Fam­i­ly in the War-Torn Netherlands
    Kristen den Hartog and Tracey Kasaboski
    Cover of Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
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    Inside the Gas Cham­bers: Eight Months in the Son­derkom­man­do of Auschwitz
    Shlomo Venezia
    Cover of From Siberia to America: A Story of Survival and Success
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    From Siberia to Amer­i­ca: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Success
    Boruch B. Frustajer; Antony Polonsky, fwd.
    Cover of Words That Burn Within Me: Faith, Values, Survival
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    Words That Burn With­in Me: Faith, Val­ues, Survival
    Hilda Stern Cohen
    Cover of My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
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    My Ger­many: A Jew­ish Writer Returns to the World His Par­ents Escaped
    Lev Raphael
    Cover of When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win: Reflection on Looking in the Mirror
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    When You Lie About Your Age The Ter­ror­ists Win: Reflec­tion on Look­ing in the Mirror
    Car­ol Leifer
    Cover of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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    A Lucky Child: A Mem­oir of Sur­viv­ing Auschwitz as a Young Boy
    Thomas Buergenthal; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
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    A Wid­ow’s Tale
    Dina Bar-Tov
    Cover of A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) By Her Bastard Son
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    A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
    Clancy Sigal
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    Child of a Tur­bu­lent Century
    Victor Erlich
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