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    Cover of How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)
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    How My Grand­fa­ther Stole a Shoe (and Sur­vived the Holo­caust in Ukraine)
    Julie Masis; Felix Lembersky, illus.
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    The Gold­en Age of Ital­ian Jews: 1848 – 1938
    Gino Seg­rè
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    The Sur­vivor of the Holocaust
    Jack Eis­ner
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    War­saw Testament
    Samuel Kas­sow
    Cover of No Matter How Far: Based on the True Story of a Holocaust Survivor's Tireless Search to Find His Wife in Post-War Europe
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    No Mat­ter How Far: Based on the True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Tire­less Search to Find His Wife in Post-War Europe
    Gene Green­berg
    Cover of The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
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    The Girl Ban­dits of the War­saw Ghet­to: The True Sto­ry of Five Coura­geous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
    Eliz­a­beth R. Hyman
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    The God­dess of Warsaw
    Lisa Barr
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    Excerpt: The For­bid­den Daughter

    Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
    April 28, 2024
    Cover of The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
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    The For­bid­den Daugh­ter: The True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Survivor
    Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
    Cover of My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto
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    My Kad­dish: A Child Speaks from the War­saw Ghetto
    Thérèse (Ter­ri) Masson
    Cover of We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
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    We Must Not Think of Our­selves: A Novel
    Lau­ren Grodstein
    Essay

    Vis­it­ing Poland: Writ­ing about the Holocaust

    Lau­ren Grodstein
    December 5, 2023
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    Sword Catch­er
    Cas­san­dra Clare
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    Tatae’s Promise
    Moi­ses J. Goldman
    Sher­ry Maysonave
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    Napoleon’s Mirage
    Michelle Cameron
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    The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

    Meryl Frank
    June 26, 2023
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