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27405. Beer, Edith Hahn. The Nazi officer’s wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust. Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin. New York : Rob Weibach Books/William Morrow, 1999, stated First Edition, 305pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $15
. ISBN 068816689X


21632. Blady Szwajgier, Adina, 1917-. I remember nothing more: the Warsaw Children's Hospital and the Jewish resistance. Translated from the Polish by Tasja Darowska and Danusia Stok. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990, stated First American Edition, xv, 184pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green half-cloth, $12
. ISBN 0679400346


23405. Blady Szwajgier, Adina, 1917-. I remember nothing more : the Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish resistance. Translated from the Polish by Tasja Darowska and Danusia Stok. New York: Simon and Schuster, a Touchstone Book, 1992, 184pp., PAPERBACk, very good, $5
. ISBN 0671760386


22665. Breznitz, Shlomo. Memory Fields. New York: Knopf, 1993, stated First Edition, 179pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white half-cloth, previous owner's name, $12
Breznitz was born in Bratislava, 1936. Survived the holocaust in a convent orphanage.


27346. DeSaix, Deborah Durland / Ruelle, Karen Gray. Hidden on the Mountain. Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon. New York: Holiday House, stated First Edition, 275pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $20
. ISBN 0823419282


9812. Deutschkron, Inge. Outcast: a Jewish girl in wartime Berlin. Translated by Jean Steinberg. New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp, 1989, stated First American Edition, 262pp. . 22 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $20
Translation of: Ich trug den gelben Stern. ISBN 0880641169


32284. Doerry, Martin, 1955-. My wounded heart : the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944. Translated from the German by John Brownjohn. New York and London : Bloomsbury, 2004, stated First U.S. Edition, xiii, 269pp., very good brown cloth, stamp on bottom foredge: "used book", $12
First published in German in 2002: Mein verwundetes Herz (DVA). ISBN 1582343705


20345. Eisner, Jack. The survivor. Edited by Irving A. Leitner. New York: Morrow, 1980, later printing, 320pp., [7] leaves of plates: ill. 25 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few minor tears, very good white half-cloth, SIGNED - Survive / Jack Eisner / 5/28/85. $85
. ISBN 0688037410


32473. Elias, Ruth, 1922-. Triumph of hope : from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel. Translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 1st printing, x, 274pp., very good dust-jacket, slight scuff at top of spine, very good light blue hardcover, slightly faded, $12
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. First published in German in 1988. ISBN 0471163651


23496. Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. Anne Frank Tagebuch. Fassung von Otto H. Frank und Mirjam Pressler ; aus dem Niederlandischen von Mirjam Pressler. Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Taschenbuch, 1997, later printing, 315pp., small PAPERBACK, good used copy, first page wrinkled, previous owner's name, $9
. ISBN 3596113776


22432. Fremont, Helen. After Long Silence. A Memoir. New York: Delta Trade Paperback, 2000, 352pp., PAPERBACK, very good used copy, slight wear, previous owner's name blacked out, $4
Discovery that her parents were holocaust survivors. ISBN 0385333706


31785. Goetz, Samuel. I Never Saw My Face. Danbury, Connecticut: Rutledge Books, 2001, xii, 139pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover, $11
Cover design by Sharon Gelfand. An 11-year old Polish boy survives concentration camps and emigrates to the US after the war. ISBN 1582441367


20521. Greenfeld, Howard. The hidden children. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1993, 118pp., very good dust-jacket but ink stained at top edge, very good black half-cloth, $12
. ISBN 0395660742


21629. Gross, Leonard. The last Jews in Berlin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982, 1st edition, 349pp. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good brown half-cloth, remainder stamp on edge, $12
.


21625. Helmreich, William B.. Against all odds: holocaust survivors and the successful lives they made in America. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1992, later printing, 348pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red half-cloth, $12
. ISBN 0671669567


31821. Hofstein, Irene S., 1921-. Irene : chronicle of a survivor. New York, N.Y. : Shengold Pub., 1997, stated First Edition, 177pp., dust-jacket in plastic sleeve which is taped to binding, very good black hardcover BUT ex-library with stamps, pocket, otherwise appears unused, $7.5
Irene and her mother emigrated from Berlin and ended up in the US in 1939. Part of the book consists of letters from her grandmother, who could not get out of Germany. ISBN 0884002004


24305. Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001. Shivitti : a vision. Translated from the Hebrew by Eliyah Nike De-Nur and Lisa Herman. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1989, stated First U.S. edition, xv, 115pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $12
Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur wrote a series of novels and memoirs published in Israel from 1947. Ziva Shavitsky noted critical respect for "his ability to write about the Holocaust in an undistilled, raw, and highly disturbing fashion that transcends other banal or simplified artistic representations of the events.". ISBN 0062508709


28116. Kalib, Goldie Szachter, 1931-. The last selection : a child’s journey through the Holocaust. Amherst : University of Massachussetts Press, 1991, xx, 266pp., dust-jacket with call number label, very good hardcover but ex-library with stamps, label, pocket, discard stamp, text clean, binding solid, $12
By Goldie Szachter Kalib with Sylvan Kalib and Ken Wachsberger. ISBN 0870237586


20659. Large, David Clay. And the world closed its doors: the story of one family abandoned to the Holocaust. New York : Basic Books, 2003, xxiii, 278pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $10
. ISBN 0465038085


3875. Michel, Ernest W., 1923-. Promises to keep. foreword by Leon Uris. New York: Barricade Books ; Emeryville, CA: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1993., 1st edition, xvii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good half-cloth, $20
. ISBN 0962303240


3874. Michel, Ernest W., 1923-. Promises to keep. foreword by Leon Uris. New York: Barricade Books ; Emeryville, CA: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1993., later printing, xvii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good half-cloth, INSCRIBED by Michel on front endpaper. $35
. ISBN 0962303240


17907. Michelson, Max, 1924-. City of life, city of death: memories of Riga. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2001, xii, 171pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, SIGNED on title page by Michelson. $40
. ISBN 087081642X


22781. Opdyke, Irene Gut. In My Hands. Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer. With Jennifer Armstrong. New York: Anchor Books, Random House, 2001, 248pp., very good hardcover, $15
. ISBN 0385720327


21627. Pogany, Eugene. In my brother's image: twin brothers separated by faith after the Holocaust. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2000, 1st edition, xviii, 327pp.: ill. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover, nicely INSCRIBED on half-title by Pogany. $20
. ISBN 067088538X


32492. Rochman, Leyb, 1918-1978. The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival. Introduction by Aharon Appelfeld. New York: Holocaust Library, 271pp., good dust-jacket but chipped at top and bottom of spine, very good gray cloth, previous distributor label on rear jacket panel, $15
Distributed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, previously distributed by Schocken books. ISBN 0896040461


9165. Rosenberg, Blanca, 1913-1998. To tell at last: survival under false identity, 1941-45. Urbana, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1993, xv, 178pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $20
Memoir of a Polish woman who survives by various means, including as a maid in a Nazi household. Author later became Professor of Social Work at Columbia University and a psychotherapist.


28715. Schindler, Emilie, 1907-2001. Where light and shadow meet : a memoir. Emilie Schindler with Erika Rosenberg. Translated from the original Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. New York : W.W. Norton, 1997, later printing, xii, 162pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $7.5
. ISBN 0393041239


21562. Szonyi, David M. / Steinitz, Lucy Y., ed.. Living after the holocaust: reflections by the post-war generation in America. Edited by Lucy Y. Steinitz, with David M. Szonyi. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1976, iv, 149pp.: ill. 23 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $10
cover photo by Erna Weill. Many of the essays, poems, and illustrations originally appeared in the Spring 1975 issue of the quarterly magazine, Response: a contemporary Jewish review. ISBN 0819700169


27966. Trahan, Elizabeth Welt. Walking with ghosts : a Jewish childhood in wartime Vienna. New York : Peter Lang, 1998, 252pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $19
Series: Literature and the sciences of man ; vol. 17. Trahan was born in Berlin, 1924, lived in Czechoslovakia 1929-1939 then in Vienna; came to the US in 1947. ISBN 0820436925


20519. Whiteley, Suzanne Mehler, 1935-. Appel is forever: a child's memoir. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1999, 168pp. : ill. . 24 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $10
The author describes her experiences during the Holocaust between the ages of five and nine, in Amsterdam. ISBN 0814328229