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1	The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale more books like this by Art Spiegelman, Fred Jordon (Editor) add to wishlist At last! Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" ("Wall Street Journal") and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" ("The New Yorker"). It now appears as it was originally envisioned by the author: "The Complete Maus. "It is the story of Vladek ... see all copies from $11.05! new only from $16.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Exodus more books like this by Leon Uris add to wishlist A sweeping historical novel of the events and characters surrounding the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in Palestine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Maus I & II Paperback Boxed Set more books like this by Art Spiegelman add to wishlist The winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, this set includes volumes one and two of "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Raymond Sokolov, "Wall Street Journal." see all copies from $13.00! new only from $18.34! \| SVS
4	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps more books like this by Andrea Warren add to wishlist Living in Poland, 12-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is hardly aware that he's Jewish. But when Hitler comes to power, Jack is torn from his family as they are herded to a concentration camp, and he is forced to work for the Nazis. Each day is a struggle to survive, and life in the camps is brutal as Hitler's guards are skilled at crushing a prisoner's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sophies Choice more books like this by William Styron add to wishlist The heroine of Styron's novel is based on a Polish survivor of Auschwitz he knew when he lived in a Brooklyn rooming house in the late 1940s. The narrator--in the tradition of Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY--is Stingo, the young Southern writer who falls in love with Sophie, his upstairs neighbor, and tells her dramatic story and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Changed Man more books like this by Francine Prose add to wishlist Intrigued by the idea of what happens to radically tattooed skinheads when they get older, Francine Prose created the character of neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan, age 32, who "repents," goes to work for a foundation, and finds himself becoming famous as a do-gooder who wants to "keep guys like me from becoming guys like me." Not only Vincent, but the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Mad Desire to Dance more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist From the Nobel laureate author of "Night" comes a searing new novel about a man whose life is shaped by his changing grasp of the horrors of the 20th century. see all copies from $8.75! new only from $13.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	MR Sammlers Planet more books like this by Saul Bellow add to wishlist In Saul Bellow's 1970 more-bitter-than-sweet novel about alienation and moral decay, Artur Sammler, a 70-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, spends his days quietly and pointlessly in New York. An intellectual and academic, he lectures occasionally at Columbia University but spends most of his time drifting about the city, trying to make sense of an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Auschwitz: A New History more books like this by Laurence Rees add to wishlist Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Day After Night more books like this by Anita Diamant add to wishlist In a heart-wrenching new novel, Diamant tells the story of four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a postwar British camp in Palestine. see all copies from $12.97! new only from $14.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began more books like this by Art Spiegelman, Art Speigelman, Fred Jordon (Editor) add to wishlist When Maus was published in 1987, it was an instantaneous success. A comic book in which Jews are mice, Germans are cats, and Poles are pigs, it was like nothing else published before--at once a novel and a biography, recapturing the full terror of the Jews in Poland during the holocaust. Now Spiegelman delivers the long-awaited second half of the ... see all copies from $4.54! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Severed Wasp more books like this by Madeleine L'Engle add to wishlist Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from The Small Rain, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwich Village days who, it turns out, is the former Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust more books like this by Eugene Pogany add to wishlist This family memoir concerns a Jewish family, who, despite their passionate conversion to Catholicism, were interned as Jews in World War II. Though a pair of twin brothers (the author's father and uncle) survived against all odds, they were forever estranged when one continued living as a Catholic and the other reassumed the Jewish identity of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969- more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist The second volume of Nobel laureate Wiesel's memoirs recalls his most public years as an activist for Holocaust remembrance and human rights, when he transformed himself from a successful novelist into a moral bulldog, challenging world leaders, including Francois Mitterand and Ronald Reagan, to be more ethically responsible. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War more books like this by Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel add to wishlist This is the story of Betty Schimmel and the two loves of her life. During the Nazi occupation she was separated from her childhood sweetheart, Richie, and sent to a concentration camp. Nearly 30 years after she had married her second love, she ran into Richie, and had to make an important choice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	See Under: Love more books like this by David Grossman add to wishlist A nine-year-old boy named Momik lives with his parents--Holocaust survivors--in Jerusalem. The parents refuse to speak of their time in the camps, and Momik is determined to understand their experience. Years later, Momik, as an adult, tries to save himself from personal and artistic sterility by an act of fantastic imagination. In another story, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe more books like this by Ruth Ellen Gruber add to wishlist The vast majority of European countries are today celebrating their Jewish heritage as never before. Widely acknowledged as the best and most comprehensive book in the field, this is the only Jewish travel guidebook that takes visitors to hundreds of fascinating sites in towns, villages, and remote hamlets - as well as major cities - across ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $11.34! \| SVS
18 view cover	Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language more books like this by Eva Hoffman add to wishlist In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.49! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-1948 more books like this by Aranka Siegal add to wishlist In this sequel to the Newbery Honor book UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT, the author reflects on what her life was like after she and her sister were released from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War II. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home more books like this by Erin Einhorn add to wishlist In this extraordinarily moving memoir, Einhorn finds the family in Poland that had saved her mother from the Holocaust and stumbles upon a decades-old land dispute that leads her to ask: How far should one go to rectify the past? 8-pages of b&w photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis more books like this by Karolina Lanckoronska, Countess, Noel Clark (Translator), Eva Hoffman (Preface by) add to wishlist In September of 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoroska, wealthy landowner and professor of art history, watched the Soviet army march into Poland. After joining the resistance, she was arrested, sentenced to death, and held in Ravensbruck concentration camp. There she taught art history to other women who, like her, might be dead in a few days. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Hidden Children more books like this by Howard Greenfeld add to wishlist Interviews with 15 Jewish Holocaust survivors who, as children during World War II, had to go into hiding to avoid being captured by the Nazis. These children survived by living with non-Jewish families, hiding in religious institutions, or constantly moving from place to place on their own. Some of the survivors were treated well by their hosts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Day more books like this by Elie Wiesel, Anne Borchardt (Translator) add to wishlist "Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." "--The New York Times Book Review""" The publication of "Day "restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as "The Accident" and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the author's classic trilogy of Holocaust literature, ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $2.59! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath more books like this by Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein add to wishlist The letters between Gerda Weissman and Kurt Klein, the American soldier who helped liberate her from near death on the Czech border on May 7, 1945 reflect strong feelings for life and a growing love. Weissman and Klein were separated for the year in which these letters were written and were reunited and married in Paris. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Memory more books like this by Philippe Grimbert, Polly McLean (Translator) add to wishlist A runaway bestseller in Europe, "Memory" is a stunning combination of memoir and fiction. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths, Grimbert, a psychoanalyst, explores the secrets that dominated his parents lives, in this beautiful and gripping novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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