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Fic­tion
Once We Were Home
Jen­nifer Rosner
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Non­fic­tion
Return to Latvia
Marina Jarre; Ann Goldstein, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celi­na Karp Biniaz 
William B. Friedricks
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Non­fic­tion
Escape from the Ghet­to: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Resilience in World War II
John Carr
Essay

Untold Sto­ries of the Doc­tors of the War­saw Ghetto

Maria Ciesiel­s­ka, Luc Albins­ki
April 18, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
The 23rd Psalm: A Holo­caust Memoir
George Salton with Anna Salton Eisen
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Fic­tion
Names in a Jar
Jennifer Gold
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Non­fic­tion
The Upstander: How Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mis­sion to Dis­man­tle Hate
Jori Epstein
Essay

The Jew­ish Writer Behind Mozart’s Operas

Howard Jay Smith
September 21, 2021
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Fic­tion
A Requiem for Hania
Greg Din­ner
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Poet­ry
Aunt Bird
Yer­ra Sugarman
Cover of My Name is Staszek Surdel: The Improbable Holocaust Survival of Nathan Poremba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka
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My Name is Staszek Sur­del: The Improb­a­ble Holo­caust Sur­vival of Nathan Porem­ba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka
Joel S. Poremba
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Wit­ness to His­to­ry-From Vien­na to Shang­hai: A Mem­oir of Escape, Sur­vival and Resilience
Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
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Non­fic­tion
War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
Katarzyna Person
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I Sur­vived the Nazi Inva­sion, 1944: The Graph­ic Novel
Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illustrator)
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28 Days: A Nov­el of Resis­tance in the War­saw Ghetto
David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
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