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Recommended memoir books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Poland for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Renia's Diary : A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that’s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form ... continue

2.

The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography--a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka.

3.

Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicca EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.