Download or read book The Road from Breslau written by Andrew Peiser and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is entitled "The Road from Breslau: A Story of My Mother's Experiences in Germany, India, and New York." The genre is non-fiction. It tells the story of Marianne, a remarkable woman whose journey in life spanned three continents and who was eyewitness to some of the most important events of the 20th century. It is based upon her memoirs and her many writings, as well as family archives, and can be considered a case study of the larger German Jewish experience. The story is interwoven with historical facts, making it both a biography as well as a historical narrative. Marianne was born in Breslau, Germany (now known as Wroclaw, part of Poland) in 1908, an only child, and grew up during World War I. She attended the University of Breslau, but while attending became a victim of the anti-Jewish racial laws passed by the Nazis during the 1930s. On November 9, 1938, on the eve of World War II, Marianne suffered a harrowing experience when she witnessed her husband being taken away to the concentration camp at Buchenwald during Kristallnacht. Incredibly, she managed to free him and, in January 1939, they managed to emigrate from Germany to Bombay, India on one of the last available passenger ships to leave Europe prior to the outbreak of World War II. Marianne was also able to secure a visa for her mother, thus saving three lives from certain deportation and death. In 1940, her first son was born. In 1942, three years after arriving in India, Marianne became a widow after her husband died. Five years later, in 1947, she witnessed India gain its independence from Britain and experienced the riots that took place after Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. In the same year, she married another German-Jewish refugee and had a second son in 1949. In 1953, after her mother passed away and India gained its independence, Marianne immigrated to New York via Ellis Island a year before it closed, where she began yet another new life, now for the third time. She had lived in India for 14 years. The story of Marianne is one that was all too often characterized by adversity, but it is also a story of bravery, hope, perseverance, and inspiration. Despite the many hardships that she endured - and this was one of the many extraordinary things about Marianne - she was never bitter and constantly maintained a sense of humor, good cheer, and charming wit. She was strong and resilient, ever able to adapt to changing circumstances. Events and situations that would have overwhelmed most people had exactly the opposite effect upon Marianne.
Download or read book Uprooted written by Gregor Thum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a German city became Polish after World War II With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.
Download or read book A Hand book for Travellers on the Continent written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hand book for Travellers on the Continent written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839 written by Andrew A. Bonar and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book Lviv Wroc aw Cities in Parallel written by Jan Fellerer and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities by focusing on lived experiences and "bottom-up" historical processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and questionnaires, examples of popular culture, and media pieces. The essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same coin—loss on the one hand, gain on the other—in two cities that, as a result of the political reality of the time, are complementary.
Download or read book A Hand book for Travellers on the Continent written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839 written by Andrew Alexander Bonar and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hand Book for Travellers on the Continent being a guide through Holland Belgium Prussia and Northern Germany and along the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland By John Murray III With an index map written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road To Berlin written by John Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces Russian campaigns from the counterattack at Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin and the capture of Prague. It explores in detail Stalin's wartime relations with Roosevelt and Churchill and examines the evolution of his policies toward Poland and the Balkans.
Download or read book Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War 1756 1763 written by Herbert J. Redman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Years' War (1756-1763), known as the French and Indian War in North America, was perhaps the first war that might be called a world war. It involved the major European countries, North and Central America, the coast of West Africa, the Philippines, and India. A major player in the war was Frederick the Great (1712-1786), the king of Prussia and a great military leader. The first major work on the monarch and his role in the war for more than a century, this book sheds light on many aspects of military and European history.
Download or read book Handbook for North Germany written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Island Rail Road A Comprehensive History Part One South Side R R of L I written by Vincent F. Seyfried and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Railroad is the third oldest in the USA and has been in operation since 1836. When it opened in 1867 the South Side Railroad was its first direct competitor. In his detailed book, Vincent F. Seyfried has given a comprehensive account of its development.
Download or read book A hand book for travellers on the continent 1st 2 issues of the 16th and 17th eds The 18th ed is in 2 pt Pt 1 only of the 19th ed written by John Murray (publishers.) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplementary Volume Vol XIV written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stalin s War with Germany The road to Berlin written by John Erickson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, Erickson presents the vivid and compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans from Russian soil.
