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Adelsberger, Lucie. Auschwitz. A Doctor's Story. MA: Northeastern University Press, 1995.

Alland, Bronislawa. Memoirs of a Hidden Child During the Holocaust: My Life During the War. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Alexy, Trudy. The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret Jews: A Woman Discovers her Spiritual Heritage. Simon & Shuster Inc., 1993. (Amazon: Harper SanFranciso, 1994).

Alexander, Caroline. Now You Are Sarah: A Memoir. Ben Simon Publications, 1993.

Altman, Rachel. Eds. Carol Rittner and John H. Roth. Fragments of a Broken Past. Paragon House, 1993.

Applemean-Jurman, Alicia, My Story. Bantam Books, 1990.

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. NY: Penguin 1994 (originally published in 1965).

Auerbacher, Inge. I Am A Star: Child of the Holocaust. Prentice-Hall. (Amazon: Puffin, 1993).

Bailer, Darice and Rosemarie Mosler. Comes A Little Light. Dream House Books, Inc, 2008.

Baum, Anna. Procession: Stories from a Polish Past. Toronto: Childe Thursday, 1990.

Bauman, Janina. Dream of Belonging: My Years in Postwar Poland. London: Virago Press, 1992.

Berland-Hyatt, Felicia. Close-Calls: The Autobiography of a Survivor. Holocaust Library. 1991.

Bernstein, Tuvel. The Seamstress. Putnam, 1997. (Amazon: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1999).

Birnbaum, Halina. Hope is the Last to Die. 1996.

Blumenfeld Clenman, Donia. A Scroll of Remembrance. North York Ontario: Flowerfield & Littleman, 1995.

Blumenstein-Wilder, Lili. Lili. Shengold Publishers, 1990.

Blum-Samson, Ariella. A Letter from my Father. Arisa Publication, 1993.

Bock, Gisela and Thane, Pat, eds. Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European States 1880s -1950s. Routledge, 1994.

Brand, Sandra. Roma. Xlibris Corporation, 2001.

Brenner, Feldhay, and Rachel. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

Burger, Trude and Green, Jeffrey M. A Daughter Gift of Love. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1992.

Carmelly-Steigman, Felicia. Shattered 50 Years of Silence: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria. Toronto: Abbeyfield Publishers, 1997.

Chicago, Judy. From Darkness into Light. Viking Press, 1993.

Czech, Danuta. Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945. New York: Holt, 1990.

Davidowicz, Lucy. What is the Use of Jewish History? Schoken Books, 1994.

Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. Yale University Press, 1997.

Delisle, Esther. The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and Extreme Right-Wing Nationalism in Quebec from 1929-1939. Robert Davies Publishing, 1993.

Denes, Magda. Castles Burning. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Publishers, 1997. (Amazon: Touchtone Books, 1998).

Deutch, Mina. Mina's Story. Toronto: ECW Press, 1994.

Duba, Ursula. Tales From a Chld of the Enemy. Penguin, 1997.

Dunn Adler, Alice. Boriska's Prophecy. Acropolis Books, 1992.

Dwork, Deborah. Children with a Star. Yale University Press, 1991.

Eichengreen, Lucille. From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust. Mercury House S.F., 1994.

Eliach, Yaffa. We Were Children Just Like You. Center for Holocaust Studies, 1990.

Epstein, Helen. Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History. Little Brown & Co, 1997.

Felman, Shoshana and Laub, Dori. M.D. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc., 1992.

Felstiner-Lowenthal, Mary. Women, Modernity and the Holocaust. Stanford University, 1995.

Felstiner-Lowenthal, Mary. To Paint Her Life. Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era. Harpercollins Publishers, HarperPerennial, 1994.

Fervert, Ut. Women in German History: From the Emancipation to Sexual Libertion. NY: Berg Publishers Limited, 1990.

Fine, Ellen S. Women Writers and the Holocaust: Strategies for Survival. NY: Randolph L. Braham, 1990.

Fisher, Josey G. Ed. The Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992.

Friedman, Ina R. Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman who Defied the Nazis. Lodegepole Press, 1995.

Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1995.

Frankova, Anita and Hyndrakova, Anna and Hejkova, Vera and Factorova, Frantiska. The World without Human Dimensions. State Jewish Musuem in Prague, 1991.

Fogelman, Eva. Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Anchor Press, 1995.

Friesova, Jana Renee. Fortress of my Youth. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Games, Sonia. Escape Into Darkness. Xlibris Corporation, 2002.

Glasberg-Gold, Ruth. Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir. Florida: University Press, 1996.

Goldenberg, Myrna. Different Horrors, Same Hell. NY: PaulistPress, 1990.

Grunbaum, Irene. Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum. University of Nebraska Press, 1996. (Amazon: Bison Books Corp, 1999).

Hart, Janet. New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance 1941-1964. NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Hofstein, Irene. Irene: Chronicle of A Survivior. Shreiber Publishing, 1998.

Hurwtiz, Johanna. Anne Frank: Life in Hiding. Camelot, 1999.

Kalib-Szachter, Goldie. The Last Selection: A Child's Journey Through the Holocaust. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

Kalman, Judith. The County of Birches. Douglas and McIntyre, 1998.

Kalman Naves, Elaine. Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

Kwinta, Chava. I Am Still Living. Simon & Pierre Publishing. Toronto.

Leitner, Isabella and Irving, Leitner. Isabella: From Auschwitz to Freedom. NY: Anchor Books, 1994. (Amazon: Xlibris Corporation, 2001).

Leitner, Isabella. The Big Lie- A True Story. NY: Scholastic Inc., 1992.

Lerek, Wanda. Hold on to Life, Dear. 1992.

Linden, Ruth R. Making Stories Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust. Ohio State University Press. 1995.

Lindwer, Willy. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. Anchor Publishing, 1992.

Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault of Truth and Memory. Penguin Group, 1994.

Lipstadt, Deborah. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust 1933-1945.

Littell, Marcia Sachs. From Prejudice to Destruction. 1995.

Lubetkin, Zivia. In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. 1981.

Magyar-Isaacson, Judith. Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor. University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Martz, Fraidie. Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada. Vehicule Press, 1996.

Matalon-Lagnado, Lucette. Children of the Flames: Dr. Joseph Mengele and the Untold. NY: Morrow, 1991.

Michaels, Anne. Fugitive Pieces. Vintage Books, 1998.

Miller, Judith. One by One by One. NY: Simon & Shuster, 1990.

Milton, Sybil. In Fitting Memory. Wayne State University Press, 1992.

Newborn, Jud.  Sophie Scholl and the White Rose.  Oneworld Publications, 2007.  

Owings, Alison. Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Perl, Lila and Blumenthal-Lazan, Mario. Four Perfect Pebbles. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1999.

Phayer, Michael and Fleisner, Eva. Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust. Sheed and Ward, 1997.

Raab, Elizabeth M. And Peace Never Came. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.

Raicus, Ethel and Silberstein Swartz, Sarah. Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers. University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Ring, Dr. Jennifer. The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt. State University of New York Press, 1998.

Rittner, Carole and John K. Roth. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. NY: Paragon House, 1993.

Rosenberg, Blanca. To Tell At Last. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Rosenberg, Maxine. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Children Rescued from the Holocaust. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.

Rosner, Mina and Rossiter, Margaret L. I Am A Witness. Hyperion Press, 1990.

Schaffer, Mollie Weinstein and Cyndee Schaffer. Mollie's War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe. McFarland, 2010.

Schiff, Hilda. Holocaust Poetry. St. Martin's Press, 1995. chneider, Gertrude. Exile and Destruction - the Fate of Austrian Jews. Praeger Publishers, 1995.

Schreiber-Weitz. Sonia. I Promised I Would Tell: Her Poetry and Testimony During the Holocaust. Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, 1993.

Schulman, Faye. A Partisan's Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust. Second Story Press, 1995.

Seigel, Jerry. My Mother's Dream. 1990.

Sendyk, Helen. The End of Days. St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Shelly, Lore. Auschwitz- the Nazi Civilization. University Pressof America, 1992.

Silten, R. Gabriele S. Between Two Worlds: Autobiography of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust. CA: Fithian Press, 1995.

Simchovitch, Simcha. Song Will Remain: Selected Poems. Lugus Productions, 1997.

Sime, Ruth. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. CA: University of California Press, 1995. (Amazon: 1997).

Spies, Gerty. My Years in Theresienstadt: How One Woman Survived the Holocaust. NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.

Sutin, Jack and Rochelle, Ed. Laurence Sutin. Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance. Greywolf Press, 1996.

Szachter-Kalib, Goldie. The Last Selection: A Child's Journey through the Holocaust. MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

Szwajger, Adina Blady. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children' Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. Simon & Shuster, 1990. (Amazon: Touchstone Books, 1992).

Tedeshi, Giuliana. There Is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau. NY: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Thon, Elsa. I Wish It Were Fiction: Memories 1939-1945. Mekler & Deahl Publishers, 1997.

Toll, Nelly S. I Wish It Were Fiction: Memories 1939-1945. Mekler & Deahl Publishers, 1997.

Toll, Nelly S. Behind the Secret Window: Memoirs of a Hidden Childhood during WWII. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.

Vogel, Ilse-Margret. Bad Times, Good Friends: A Memoir - Berlin 1945. Harcourt Brace Jovanovics Publishers, 1992.

Volavkova, Hana. I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944. Schocken, 1993. (Amazon: 1994).

Vos, Ida. Anna Is Still Here. Puffin, 1995.

Wardi, Dina. Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust. London: Routledge.

Weiss, Reska. Journey through Hell. Pan. 1963

Weissman-Klein, Gerda. All But My Life: A Memoir. Hill and Wang. 1995.

Werner, Dorothy. Fighting Back.

Zassenaus, Hiltgunt. Walls: Resisting the Third Reich. MA: 1993.

Zucotti, Susan. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews. Harper Collins, 1993.

Zyskind, Sara. Stolen Years. Signet, 1983.