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The Holocaust: Lovers in Auschwitz, and Cold Crematorium, two memoirs by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust

The Holocaust: Lovers in Auschwitz, and Cold Crematorium, two memoirs by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Auschwitz internees after liberation by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945. Credit: EPA, via Shutterstock
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The two books reviewed above, and available now, are: 

LOVERS IN AUSCHWITZ: A True Story | By Keren Blankfeld | Little, Brown | 388 pp. | $30 

 COLD CREMATORIUM: Reporting From the Land of Auschwitz | By József Debreczeni | Translated by Paul Olchváry | St. Martin’s Press | 244 pp. | $28
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Memoir: A Chronicle of Homelessness Is Also an Offbeat Hymn to Life

Memoir: A Chronicle of Homelessness Is Also an Offbeat Hymn to Life | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
In “Travels With Lizbeth,” Lars Eighner recounts the time he spent living on the streets with his dog starting in the late 1980s.
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5 Great Memoirs - Recommended by Terese Marie Mailhot (Author of 'Heart Berries')  

5 Great Memoirs - Recommended by Terese Marie Mailhot (Author of 'Heart Berries')   | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Terese Marie Mailhot is a writer from a small Indian reservation in British Columbia, Canada. Her book Heart Berries illustrates her experience as
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