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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of No Goodbyes: A Father-Daughter Memoir of Love, War and Resurrection
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    No Good­byes: A Father-Daugh­ter Mem­oir of Love, War and Resurrection
    Naava Piatka
    Cover of What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy
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    What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wis­dom About Love, Life and Comedy
    Susie Essman
    Cover of The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood
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    The Shame of Sur­vival: Work­ing Through a Nazi Childhood
    Ursula Mahlendorf
    Cover of A Daughter of Her Century
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    A Daugh­ter of Her Century
    Vera Foster
    Cover of The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir
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    The Last Jew of Tre­blin­ka: A Memoir
    Chil Rajchman; Solon Beinfeld, trans.
    Cover of Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century
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    Mem­oirs of a Grand­moth­er: Scenes from the Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of Rus­sia in the Nine­teenth Century
    Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
    Cover of The House on Crash Corner and Other Unavoidable Calamities
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    The House on Crash Cor­ner and Oth­er Unavoid­able Calamities
    Mindy Green­stein
    Cover of The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation
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    The Dev­il’s Work­shop: A Mem­oir of the Nazi Coun­ter­feit­ing Operation
    Adolf Burger
    Cover of Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret
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    Annie’s Ghosts: A Jour­ney Into a Fam­i­ly Secret
    Steve Luxenberg
    Cover of Surviving
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    Sur­viv­ing
    Akira Ohiso and Ellie Ohiso
    Cover of A Sense of Purpose: Recollection
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    A Sense of Pur­pose: Recollection
    Suzy Eban
    Cover of Devotion: A Memoir
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    Devo­tion: A Memoir
    Dani Shapiro
    Cover of Here, There Are No Sarahs
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    Here, There Are No Sarahs
    Sonia Shainwald Orbuch And Fred Rosenbaum
    Cover of Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
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    Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
    Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
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    Gertru­da’s Oath
    Ram Oren; Barbara Harshav, trans.
    Cover of The Aristocrat: The Life and Legacy of Hillel Menashe Sutton
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    The Aris­to­crat: The Life and Lega­cy of Hil­lel Menashe Sutton
    Abraham Sutton
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