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1	The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness more books like this by Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas (Editor), Bonny V Fetterman (Editor) add to wishlist Can evil be forgiven? The famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked this question of people from many walks of life--including authors, political leaders, and scholars--and collected their responses in this book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| SVS
2	For those I loved more books like this by Martin Gray add to wishlist (SPECIFIC COPY PER PUBLISHER)Martin Gray's memoir, first read by over 30 million, tells of a Jewish boy, age 14, trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto, later escaping Treblinka to become, at 19, an officer in the Red Army. At 35 he built a new life--only to have everything taken from him again. This cautionary tale of the rise of evil in our world includes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Will Bear Witness V01: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 more books like this by Victor Klemperer, Martin Chalmers (Translator) add to wishlist I WILL BEAR WITNESS is the first volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew and scholar who writes of quotidian happenings in 1930s Nazi Germany. This work covers the years 1933 to 1941. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.14! \| first editions \| SVS
4	I Remember Nothing More more books like this by Adina Blady-Szwajgier, Adina Blady Szwajger, Erroll McDonald (Editor) add to wishlist In the tradition of classic first-person accounts of life during the dark years of Nazi genocide, I Remember Nothing More is an unforgettable profile of one woman's extraordinary courage. Adina Blady Szwajger worked in the Jewish ghetto children's hospital, set up safe houses for Jews, distributed money, collected arms, and was always in fear for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoir more books like this by Chaim Grade, Channa Kleinerman Goldstein, Inna Hecker Grade (Translator) add to wishlist This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems-the city of Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, during the years before World War II. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	To the bitter end : the diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-1945 more books like this by Victor Klemperer add to wishlist A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies), the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his ... see all copies from $5.00! first editions
7	My Mothers Sabbath Days more books like this by Chaim Grade, Ashbel Green (Editor), Inna H Grade (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.40! new only from $54.00! \| first editions
8	In the Camps: Teens Who Survived the Nazi Concentration Camps more books like this by Toby Axelrod add to wishlist Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards. see all copies from $5.24! new only from $29.95!
9	Selected to Live more books like this by Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner add to wishlist Tells the story of a Dutch girl's childhood in Berlin during the 1930s, how her Jewish family went to a concentration camp and she became the sole survivor. It carries on to tell how her escape from the evils of fascism drew her eventually to embrace Christianity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Dybbuk and Other Writings more books like this by S Ansky add to wishlist The third volume in Schocken's acclaimed Library of Yiddish Classics includes a new translation of The Dybbuk, the haunting tale of ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in an East European village. Solomon Rappoport-Ansky (1863-1920) was a Yiddish writer and dramatist who resurrected themes from Jewish folklore. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.73! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The stars bear witness more books like this by Bernard Goldstein add to wishlist In addition to his active revolutionary service against the Russian czar and the Polish government, Goldstein's work earned him almost legendary hero status for harassed Jews. Out of the tortured memories he has brought forth a complete picture--the good with the bad, the cowardly with the heroic, the disgraceful with the glorious. see all copies from $7.02! new only from $7.02! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Child of the Holocaust more books like this by Jack Kuper add to wishlist At the age of eight, Jakob Kuperblum returned home to find that his family and friends had been rounded up by the Germans. He knew he would never see them again. His desperate search for safety as he runs from town to town, growing up in fear, deprived of his true identity, constitutes a heartbreaking and moving story of love and courage. "A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $188.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The boys : triumph over adversity : the story of 732 young concentration camp survivors.triumph over adversity : more books like this by Martin Gilbert add to wishlist In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story, which begins in the lost communities of pre-World War II central Europe, moves through ghetto, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto more books like this by Mary Berg, S L Shneiderman (Editor), Susan Lee Pentlin (Prepared for publication by) add to wishlist When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Mary Berg was fifteen years old. From that time, until her arrival in the United States in 1944 by exchange through her mother's American citizenship, she kept a day-to-day record of her four years in the Warsaw Ghetto, confinement in a Warsaw prison, dispatch to the internment camp in Vittel, France, and ... see all copies from $6.96! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Lazar: 2autobiography more books like this by Leonard Yanow, M Yanow add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Black Days, White Nights more books like this by Herman Carmel add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
17	Lieutenant Birnbaum: A Soldier's Story: Growing Up Jewish in America, Liberating the D.P. Camps, and a New Home in Jerusalem more books like this by Moses M Yoshor, Meyer Birnbaum, Mosheh Me'ir Yashar add to wishlist The definitive biography of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin, Poland. see all copies from $5.40! new only from $20.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The traitor more books like this by Andre? Gorz add to wishlist Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession - The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andre Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, 'a state of absolute subjective misery', ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $19.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	I Chose Life more books like this by Samuel Gruber add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	The last escape more books like this by Ruth Aliav, Peggy Mann add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	From Dachau to Dunkirk more books like this by Fren Pelican, Fred Pelican add to wishlist see all copies from $15.88! new only from $16.10!
22	Witness to the Truth more books like this by Nathan Shapell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Night of the Mist more books like this by Eugene Heimler add to wishlist Going beyond the factual record of events, Heimler describes the deeper effects of suffering - on their minds. He reveals man's humanity to man, and asks whether, under such conditions, a man can remain a man at all. However, the true message of his book is not one of horror, but of hope. Featuring an introduction by Elie Wiesel, Night of the Mist ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $46.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Inside the Gestapo more books like this by Helene Moszkiewiez add to wishlist In this true tale of a courageous resistance fighter, the author recounts her experiences as a vivacious nineteen-year-old Jewish girl when Hitler's troops took over her native Belgium. Film and television rights optioned. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	The Road to Katyn: A Soldier's Story more books like this by Salomon W Slowes, Wladyslaw T Bartoszewski (Editor), Naftali Greenwood (Translator) add to wishlist Despite the recent Soviet admission of guilt, the Katyn massacre in 1940, in which over 4000 Polish prisoners-of-war were shot, remains one of the most debated events of the World War II. Indeed, some Soviet officials continue to deny their country's responsibility. Salomon Slowes was a Jewish officer in the Polish army who formed part of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.44! \| first editions

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