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    Cover of Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov
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    Beneath the Light­less Sky: Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in the Sew­ers of Lvov
    Igna­cy Chiger
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    The Wan­der­ers: A Sto­ry of Exile, Sur­vival, and Unex­pect­ed Love in the Shad­ow of World War II
    Daniela Ger­son
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    Sub­cul­ture Vul­ture: A Mem­oir in Six Scenes
    Moshe Kash­er
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    The Moth­er­load: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
    Sarah Hoover
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    Car­a­van of Hope: A Bukha­ran Wom­an’s Jour­ney to Freedom
    Dahlia Abra­ham-Klein
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    My Name Is Barbra
    Bar­bra Streisand
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    Sur­vival
    Ita Dimant; Martin Dean, ed.; Teresa Pollin, trans.
    Cover of We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell
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    We Used to Dream of Free­dom: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, the Holo­caust, and the Sto­ries We Don’t Tell
    Sam Chaiton
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    The Rye Bread Mar­riage: How I Found Hap­pi­ness with a Part­ner I’ll Nev­er Understand
    Michaele Weiss­man
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    We Set the Night on Fire: Ignit­ing the Gay Revolution
    Martha Shel­ley
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    The Girl Who Sur­vived Auschwitz
    Eti Elboim
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    Touch­ing the Art
    Mat­til­da Bern­stein Sycamore
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    The For­got­ten Singer: The Exiled Sis­ter of I.J. and Isaac Bashe­vis Singer
    Mau­rice Carr
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    My What If Year: A Memoir
    Alisha Fer­nan­dez Miranda
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    I Must Be Dreaming
    Roz Chast
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    Hid­ing in Hol­land: A Resis­tance Memoir
    Shu­lamit Reinharz
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