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• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

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• Jews in France During World War II (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c2001), by Ren´e Poznanski, trans. by Nathan Bracher (PDF at Brandeis)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Shattered Crystals (revised electronic edition, 2009), by Mia Amalia Kanner and Eve Rosenzweig Kugler (multiple formats with commentary at shatteredcrystals.net)
• Holocaust Encyclopedia (electronic edition, 2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (illustrated HTML at ushmm.org)
• The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir (c1997), by Benjamin Jacobs (HTML at Nizkor)
• We Survived: The Stories of Fourteen of the Hidden and Hunted of Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), ed. by Eric H. Boehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir, by Florence Mayer Lieblich (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (electronic edition), by Ellen Land-Weber (illustrated HTML at Humboldt)
• Commemorative observances for Days of remembrance (United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1985), by Eli Pfefferkorn and United States Holocaust Memorial Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oral history interview guidelines, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1998), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dept. of Oral History (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Bronka Schneider, ed. by Erika Bourguignon and Barbara Hill Rigney (PDF at Ohio State)

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• Childhood in Times of War: An Autobiography (1995), by Andrew Shlomo Salamon (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam, 1940-1945 (second edition; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2016), by Stan Rubens, contrib. by Ronny Rubens (PDF at unl.edu)

• And We Are Not Saved (New York: Philosophical Library, 1963), by David Wdowinski (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal de Fidus. (A. Savine, 1889), by Eugène Loudun, Albert Savine, and Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal du siège de Paris en 1590 (L. Willem, 1876), by Alfred Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal du siége [sic] de Paris (18 septembre 1870 - 29 janvier 1871) (C. Douniol, 1872), by Michel Cornudet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, From the Thirty-First of May 1793, Till the Twenty-Eighth of July 1794; and of the Scenes Which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris (4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795-1796), by Helen Maria Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (published as "Letters, Containing a Sketch of the Scenes Which Pass in Various Departments of France During the Tyranny of Robespierre"): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (may be mislabeled as Volume 2): multiple formats at Google

• Travels in France during the years 1814-15: Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes., by Archibald Alison and Patrick Fraser Tytler (Gutenberg ebook)

• Paris during the Commune, 1871 : being letters from Paris and its neighborhood, written chiefly during the time of the Second Siege (Whittaker, 1872), by William Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deux mois de prison sous la Commune : suivi de détails authentiques sur l'assassinat de Mgr. l'Archevêque de Paris (A. Laîné, 1871), by Paul Hubert Perny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paris pendant le siége et les soixante-cinq jours de la Commune : avec un plan détaillé et des fac-simile (E. Dentu, 1871), by A.-J. Dalsème, E. Dentu, and Alcan-Lévy (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paris pendant le siége et les soixante-cinq jours de la Commune : avec un plan détaillé et des fac-simile (E. Dentu, 1871), by A.-J. Dalsème (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'une morte vivante (P. Delesalle, 1909), by Victorine B. and Lucien Descaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mes cahiers rouges au temps de la Commune (Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1909), by Maxime Vuillaume (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arrestation, incarcération et interrogatoire de M. l'Abbé Sassère. (J. Le Clère, 1873), by abbé Sassère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un otage de la Commune. (J. Lefort, 1872), by X. X. and Frère des Écoles chrétiennes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guerre et Commune; impressions d'un hospitalier, 1870-1871. (C. Lévy, 1898), by Louis Gallet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Souvenirs d'un otage de la Commune; notes d'un sergent-major réfractaire du 106e bataillon (Librairie de l'Ècho de la Sorbonne, 1872), by Ferdinand Evrard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes et souvenirs, de mai à décembre 1871 (Boussod, Valadon, 1889), by Ludovic Halévy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La place Vendôme et la Roquette; documents historiques sur la Commune (C. Douniol, 1876), by M. l'abbé Lamazou (page images at HathiTrust)
• La place Vendôme et la Roquette; documents historiques sur le commencement et la fin de la Commune (C. Douniol, 1871), by M. l'abbé Lamazou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux pays révolutionnaires (E. Baltenweck, 1877), by Auguste Lepage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les aveux d'un conspirateur bonapartiste; histoires d'hier pour servir à l'histoire de demain. (Lachaud et Burdin, 1874), by Jules Amigues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entre deux barricades (Impr. Wattier, 1886), by André Sagnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La place Vendôme et la Roquette; documents historiques sur le commencement et la fin de la Commune (C. Douniol, 1871), by M. l'abbé Lamazou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huit jours à Paris en mai 1871 (Maison Saint-Joseph, 1898), by Romain Pierre Ravailhe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mes cahiers rouges au temps de la Commune (in French), by Maxime Vuillaume (Gutenberg ebook)

• Les condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie : récit de deux évadés (Imprimerie Ziegler et C⁰..., 1876), by Paschal Grousset and Fr. Jourde (page images at HathiTrust)

• La France et le monde / Hugues Le Roux. (Plon-Nourrit, 1917), by Hugues Le Roux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoirs of the French Court (Collier, 1901), by Philippe de Commines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lettres sur la campagne du duc de Brunswick contre les français en l'année 1792. (Chez A.C. Forget, imprimeur-libraire, 1795), by Officier prussien and Martial Borye Des Renaudes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenirs d'un officier français, prisonnier en Barbarie pendant les années 1811, 1812, 1813 et 1814 ... (chez Abselin, etc., 1830), by captain Contremoulins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Réflexions et souvenirs du chevalier de Ray : classés, annotés et suivis d'un précis des guerres de 1741 à 1762 (H. Charles-Lavauzelle, 1895), by Jacques Marie Ray de Saint-Geniez and Lucien Mouillard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abordages d'un marin de la république (Souvenirs de Louis Garneray) Annotés d'après les documents d'archives et les mémoires. Illustrations documentaires. (Louis-Michaud, 1912), by Louis Garneray and Albert Savine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Chronique de Froeschwiller : scènes vécues (Delachaux & Niestlé, 1911), by Carl Klein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires, et souvenir affectueux à tous mes chers compagnons d'infortune. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1871), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires et souvenir affectueux à tous mes braves compagnons de captivité. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 et 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1873), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un déporté; étapes d'un forçat politique. (E. Dentu, 1880), by Simon Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette (Casterman, 1877), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendice à La Roquette (Lecoffre, 1889), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)

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