Memoir books set in Poland (6)
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The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman EN
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Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography--a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka.
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Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicca EN
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A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.
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The Boy on the Wooden Box : How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson EN
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“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA). This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and ... continue
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Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Grzegorzewska EN
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A celebrated debut that animates the strange wonders of childhood in rural Poland, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke EN
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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg EN
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years. In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and ... continue