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Book Defying Death on the Danube

Download or read book Defying Death on the Danube written by Debbie J. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defying Death on the Danube

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  • Author : Debbie J Callahan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-28
  • ISBN : 9789493231412
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Defying Death on the Danube written by Debbie J Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horst Stern witnesses Kristallnacht as a young boy in Berlin before fleeing to Budapest, where each day becomes a struggle for survival as he battles starvation, disease, and death while having to help support his mother and grandmother.

Book Living among the Dead

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  • Author : Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
  • Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 9493056384
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Living among the Dead written by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky and published by Amsterdam Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure of individual strength, family love, community solidarity and Jewish History This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war. Many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but were murdered in their lifelong communities, slaughtered by mass killing units, and then buried in pits. As a young girl, Mania witnessed the horrors while doing everything within her power to subsist. She lived in Włodzimierz, north of Lvov (Ukraine), was interned for three years in the labor camp nearby, managed to escape and hid in the forests until the end of the war. Although she was the sole survivor of her family, Mania went on to rebuild a new life in the United States, with a new language and new customs, always carrying with her the losses of her family and her memories. Seventy-five years after liberation, we are still witnessing acts of cruelty born out of hatred and discrimination. Living among the Dead reminds us of the beautiful communities that existed before WWII, the lives lost and those that lived on, and the importance to never forget these stories so that history does not repeat itself. READER'S FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL OF 2020 WINNER IN THE CATEGORY BIOGRAPHY

Book Shoes Along the Danube

Download or read book Shoes Along the Danube written by Phd T Zane Reeves and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims. Based on a true story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the R zlers and the F ldes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades.-----The story begins in pre-World War II Budapest, as increasing fascism and anti-Semitism lead Hungary to become an ally of Germany. In 1944, Germany invades Hungary to exterminate Europe's last remaining group of Jews at the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The story builds through the siege of Budapest, the Russian occupation of Hungary, and separation by exile.-----Julius R zler is a rising star among Budapest academics and refuses to compromise his integrity. His American half-brother, Francis, is a diplomat helping democratic Hungarians fight Nazis, and later organizes covert activities against the communists. Agnes F ldes is a Jewish woman who fights to maintain her dignity during the Holocaust.-----"Professor Reeves tells a fascinating story of two of his Hungarian-American friends, Julius and my cousin Agnes, who grew up between world wars in Gentile and Jewish families on Rose Hill, an affluent district of Budapest. Even though Hungary was forced to become Germany's wartime ally, it looked that Hungarian Jews would be spared the genocide occurring throughout Europe. Yet, in 1944 everything changed when the Germans occupy Hungary for the purpose of exterminating its Jews. Reeves recounts the experiences of Holocaust victims and survivors, Righteous Gentiles who save Jews, as well as a dramatic ending in which a husband and wife are forced to choose between their vows and freedom." - S. A. Colman, Sydney, Australia -----"A fascinating, honest look at lives intertwined with the history unfolding around them set against the very real backdrop of that tumultuous history itself. The Shoes Along the Danube is a most fitting allegory for all those that left their lives behind. Highly recommended" - Bryan Dawson, Executive Chairman, American Hungarian Federation

Book The Danube

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  • Author : Andrew Beattie
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0199768358
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Danube written by Andrew Beattie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of the Danube river.

Book Luba

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  • Author : Tsvi Dinur
  • Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers
  • Release : 2023-08-04
  • ISBN : 9493322351
  • Pages : 135 pages

Download or read book Luba written by Tsvi Dinur and published by Amsterdam Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barely twenty years old, Luba imagines a promising future in Kovna, Lithuania (present-day Kaunas). However, the year is 1939 and Luba is Jewish. Along with the whole Jewish community, her life changes inexplicably with the Nazi occupation. From her point of view, her “crime” is that she is Jewish and she will make her voice heard to her captors, knowing her chances of survival are slim. With candid urgency, she recounts the war years, her encounter with the commander of the camp where she is interned, and her miraculous survival against all odds.

Book Jacob s Courage

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  • Author : Charles S. Weinblatt
  • Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers
  • Release : 2023-08-04
  • ISBN : 9493276945
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Jacob s Courage written by Charles S. Weinblatt and published by Amsterdam Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the critical roles that love, determination, and steadfast belief play toward battling one's demons both physically and mentally. Jacob's Courage is ultimately a tribute to the triumphant human spirit. - The Jewish Book Council Jacob's Courage is a poignant and powerful tale of love and bravery set against the harrowing backdrop of Nazi-occupied Austria. Follow the journey of two young Jews, Jacob and Rachael, as they navigate a world where innocence is ruthlessly destroyed. From their comfortable lives in Salzburg to a decrepit ghetto, from a prison camp where they secretly marry to their escape through a tunnel and their joining of the local partisans to fight the Nazis, their journey is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. But their courage is truly tested as they face the horrors of Auschwitz, where faith, love, and courage are their only allies. With unforgettable moments of chaste beauty, Jacob's Courage is a moving coming-of-age story that examines the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unspeakable brutality and genocide.

Book Two Decades and a Lustrum     A historical rhapsody

Download or read book Two Decades and a Lustrum A historical rhapsody written by Charles Gregory WADE and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living among the Dead

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  • Author : Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
  • Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers
  • Release : 2022-01-01
  • ISBN : 9493231755
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Living among the Dead written by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky and published by Amsterdam Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Educator’s Guide is now available to assist those teaching about the Holocaust by using the book, Living among the Dead. The Guide can be used chapter by chapter to enhance the student’s understanding of the narrative. There are multiple suggestions and lessons to take us deeper into the history of the Holocaust and this story of strength, family love, community solidarity, and Jewish history.

Book Danube

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  • Author : Claudio Magris
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-01-11
  • ISBN : 1446433803
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Danube written by Claudio Magris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.

Book Shoes of the Shoah  The Tomorrow of Yesterday

Download or read book Shoes of the Shoah The Tomorrow of Yesterday written by Dorothy Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romania

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  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Romania written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Decades and a Lustrum

Download or read book Two Decades and a Lustrum written by C. G. Wade and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yellow Star House  The Remarkable Story of One Boy s Survival in a Protected House in Hungary

Download or read book The Yellow Star House The Remarkable Story of One Boy s Survival in a Protected House in Hungary written by Paul V. Regelbrugge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between May 15 and July 9, 1944, over 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and, most were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sole exception was the Jews in Budapest. In October 1944, Nazi Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, with the eager assistance of the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross party, initiated plans to finish off the Jews of Budapest even as the Soviet Red Army was rapidly advancing, and ultimately laid siege on Budapest in December 1944. This is the story of how one Jewish boy and 400 others were protected in a ""yellow star house."" The house was converted into a hospital run by Jewish doctors designed to treat everyone -- even their wounded enemies, free of charge. The Jewish residents were ultimately saved in this way by a man who posed as an Arrow Cross officer and risked his own life countless times while over 70,000 Jews were being murdered at the Danube or dying in ghettos. The Yellow Star House is a story of courage, family, hope, rescue and luck. It is unforgettable.

Book When the Danube Ran Red

Download or read book When the Danube Ran Red written by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hun­gary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944 in Budapest during the time of the German occupation, when the Jews were confined to ghettos but not transported to Auschwitz in boxcars, as were the Hungarian Jewry living in the countryside. Provided with food and support by their former nanny, Erzsi, Ozsváth’s family stays in a ghetto house where a group of children play theater, tell stories to one another, invent games to pass time, and wait for liberation. In the fall of that year, however, things take a turn for the worse. Rounded up under horrific circumstances, and shot on the banks of the Danube by the thousands, the Jews of Budapest are threatened with immediate destruction. Ozsváth and her family survive because of Erzsi’s courage and humanity. Cheating the watching eyes of the munderers, she brings them food and runs with them from house to house under heavy bombardment in the streets. As a scholar, critic, and translator, Ozsváth has written extensively about Holocaust literature and the Holocaust in Hungary. Now, for the first time, she records her own history in this clear-eyed, moving account. When the Danube Ran Red combines an exceptional grounding in Hun­garian history with the pathos of a survivor, and the eloquence of a poet to present a truly singular work.

Book Marvels   Mysteries of the Unexplained  An Imagination Defying Exploration of our World s Strangest Secrets

Download or read book Marvels Mysteries of the Unexplained An Imagination Defying Exploration of our World s Strangest Secrets written by Karen Farrington and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing anthology of the baffling and the bizarre, author Karen Farrington recounts the latest investigations into strange phenomena that have mystified mankind for centuries. Some of history's most astounding tales of the weird and wonderful are retold here in vivid detail, from the grotesque to the gruesome and from the unearthly to the plain inexplicable. Embracing themes as diverse as alien abductions, zoological oddities, Roswell and the Kraken of Viking legend, Marvels & Mysteries of the Unexplained offers a wealth of evidence, supporting it - where possible - with specially chosen images and providing valuable insights into the nature of the unknown. This compelling and timely examination of our planet's most astonishing secrets is sure to intrigue and amaze in equal measure.

Book The Elocutionist

Download or read book The Elocutionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: