Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
Otto Dov Kulka (Author)
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination
Otto Dov Kulka (Author)
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz (Author)
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The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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- Published on: 2006-04-01
- Original language: English
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- 256 pages
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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture quot;The Way Back, quot; directed by Peter Weir *** quot;I hope quot;The Long Walk quot; will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons couldWednesday, February 27, 2013
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Erica T. Lehrer (Author)
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Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritances.
- Rank: #384175 in Books
- Published on: 2013-08-01
- Released on: 2013-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Jack Mayer (Author)
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During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.
Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler’s rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people.
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each carrying her own painful burden, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler’s own words, “tried to talk the mothers out of their children.” Inspired by Irena Sendler, they are living examples of the power of one person to change the world and models for young people everywhere.
Sixty percent (60%) of the royalties of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. The foundation promotes Irena Sendler’s legacy and encourages educators and students to emulate the project by focusing on unsung heroes in history to teach respect and understanding among all people, regardless of race, religion, or creed.
- Rank: #22824 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-03-28
- Released on: 2011-03-28
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"During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people.Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each carrying her own painful burden, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler's own words, tried to talk the mothers out of their children. Inspired by Irena Sendler, they are living examples of the power of one person to change the world and models for young people everywhere.Sixty percent (60%) of the royalties of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. The foundation promotes Irena Sendler's legacy and encourages educators and students to emulate the project by focusing on unsung heroes in history to teach respect and understanding among all people, regardless of race, religion, or creed.File Size: 1561 KBPrint Length: 398 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 098411131X Publisher: Long Trail Press; Second Edition edition (March 28, 2011) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B005NING14"Description #3 by eBay - grandeagleretail:
Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 098411131X ISBN-13 9780984111312 Title Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project Author Jack Mayer Format Paperback Year 2011 Pages 396 Publisher Long Trail Press Dimensions 5.9 in. x 1 in. x 8.9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your reading and entertainment needs! With fast shipping, lTuesday, February 26, 2013
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Krystyna Chiger (Author), Daniel Paisner (Author)
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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid sewers of Lvov.
The Girl in the Green Sweater is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. A moving memoir of life under unimaginable circumstances, The Girl in the Green Sweater is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.
- Rank: #194288 in Books
- Published on: 2009-09-29
- Released on: 2009-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.27" h x .79" w x 5.51" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
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Categories: 2010 Texas Tayshas Reading List, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)->Ukraine->Personal narratives, Jews->Ukraine->Biography. Contributors: Krystyna Chiger - Author. Format: PaperbackDescription #3 by Barnes & Noble - Book Closeouts:
Categories: 2010 Texas Tayshas Reading List, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)->Ukraine->Personal narratives. Contributors: Krystyna Chiger - Author. Format: PaperbackOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning (Author)
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The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
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- Published on: 1993-02-05
- Released on: 1993-02-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.03" h x .79" w x 5.43" l, .62 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Vera Gran-The Accused
Vera Gran-The Accused
Agata Tuszynska (Author)
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The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir.
Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance.
Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore,” reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (“Her book has few equals”—The Times Literary Supplement).
Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler’s invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.
At the heart of the book, Gran’s complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing.
Using Vera Gran’s reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath.
- Rank: #60522 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-26
- Released on: 2013-02-26
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The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: Wladyslaw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanskis Oscar-winning film The Pianist , based on Szpilmans memoir. Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance. Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a Gestapo whore, reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszynska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (Her book has few equals The Times Literary Supplement ). Tuszynska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Pariselderly, bitter, shut away from the worldencouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitlers invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Caf Sztuka. At the heart of the book, Grans complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing. Gran describes for the first time Szpilmans shocking, close friendship with Gestapo agents from the infamous Jewish police, and de...The Image of the Germans in Polish Literature; Poland and Falsifications of Polish History
The Image of the Germans in Polish Literature; Poland and Falsifications of Polish History
Else Loser (Author)
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Poland
The author of these texts was an ethnic German, born, raised and educated in the territories surrendered to Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Absolutely bilingual in both Polish and German, the author dedicated her life to a comparative study of Polish and German history and literature. The information presented here, in English translation, in book form for the first time, is otherwise available only in relatively inaccessible or highly difficult and complicated works written by specialists, almost never in English. "The Image of the Germans in Polish Literature" is an absolutely unique piece of literature providing a unique insight into events and mentalities which continue to produce repercussions to this day. These texts are essential reading for anyone interested, not only in the causes of the Second World War, but in arriving at an understanding of certain German actions and attitudes which would otherwise be incomprehensible. Any equation has two sides.
- Rank: #624269 in Books
- Published on: 2013-02-03
- Released on: 2013-02-03
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 138 pages
Sunday, February 24, 2013
After Long Silence
After Long Silence
Helen Fremont (Author)
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"To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is."
Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth.
Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After Long Silence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets.
What Fremont and her sister discover is an astonishing story: one of Siberian gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. AFTER LONG SILENCE is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets. -->
- Rank: #306239 in Books
- Published on: 2000-01-11
- Released on: 2000-01-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .96" w x 5.24" l, .69 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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payment | shipping rates | returns After Long Silence Product Category :Books ISBN :0385333706 Title :After Long Silence EAN :9780385333702 Authors :Helen Fremont Binding :Paperback Publisher :Delta Publication Date :2000-01-11 Pages :368 Signed :False First Edition :False Dust Jacket :False List Price (MSRP) :16.00 Height :1.1000 inches Width :5.3000 inches Length :7.9000 inches Weight :0.7100 pounds Keywords :Jewish, Holocaust, Religious, Women, Poland Condition :Good Our goal with every saleDescription #2 by BzOverstock:
Helen Fremont lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has had fiction and nonfiction published inbThe Harvard Review/b,bThe O. Henry Prize Stories/b,bThe Marlboro Review/b, andbPloughshares/b. bAfter Long Silence/bis her first book.Lara and I were raised Catholic in a small city in the Midwest. In 1960, at the age of three, I went to nursery school at the convent of the Saint James Sisters, and at six I wore Lara's hand-me-down itchy white petticoat dress to my First Communion. It was the first and last time I would ever swallow a wafer, however, since our family always tiptoed out of church every Sunday before Communion. "It's not an important part of Mass," my mother explained, and for a long time we believed that Communion was a curious American addition to Catholicism.brbrMy sister and I knew that our parents were from a distant and dangerous world, that they had come out of a war, and that no one else had come with them. Although we could not hear their accents, our playmates told us our parents spoke funny English; and when our schoolmates asked about our grandparents and aunts and uncles, we said we didn't have any. Except, of course, our auntie Zosia, who lived across the ocean in a place called Italy.brbrI also knew that my parents had been in concentration camps. I misunderstood the meaning oficoncentration/iand assumed that in prison, the inmates were consumed by intensely focused mental activity. I believed that these camps were so deadly that they had sewn my parents into pockets of complete silence. And so I understood that two things could happen to you in a war: either you were suddenly, breathlessly, swept off the streets by a bomb, or you were scooped into a concentration camp, where you swallowed a terrible silence.brbrMy mother, I knew, was finally sprung from the camp by her sister, Zosia, who baked goodies and buttered up the camp warden. My father had it worse--he was off on a sheDescription #3 by eBay - booksforamerica:
payment | shipping rates | returns After Long Silence Product Category : Books ISBN : 0385333706 Title :After Long Silence EAN : 9780385333702 Authors : Fremont, Helen Binding : Paperback Publisher : Delta Publication Date : 2000-01-11 Pages : 368 Condition Notes: About Books for America, Inc Please check back often - We are listing items as quickly as possible! We are a nationally recognized charity. We describe items as best we can - we would rather receive a lower price by pointing out everyFive Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
Olga Lengyel (Author)
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Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. It was a shocking experience, it is a shocking book. In a letter to Lengyel, Albert Einstein said, "You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak." Of the book, actress Mira Sorvino said, "...The amazing story of a woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps. It's unbelievable yet horrifying because it's true."
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- Published on: 2012-02-10
- Released on: 2012-02-10
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Judaism-HolocaustSaturday, February 23, 2013
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman (Author)
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2008 Orion Book Award
The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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- Published on: 2008-09-17
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.23" h x .91" w x 5.51" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
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The Zookeeper''''s Wife: A War Story ISBN :9780393333060 Title :The Zookeeper''''s Wife: A War Story Authors :Ackerman, Diane Binding :Paperback Publisher :WW Norton Company Publication Date :Sep 17 2008 Edition : Condition :Used - Good A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is, this may or may not include dustcover. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From th ShiDescription #2 by eBay - booksforamerica:
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The Polish peasant in Europe and America
William Isaac Thomas (Author)
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Poland
" THE POLISH-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
The tide of Polish immigration grew continually until 1914 .The number of returns to Poland was also, indeed, increasing, but these on the average did not exceed 30 per cent,(...)"
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- Published on: 2013-02-13
- Released on: 2013-02-13
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Categories: Poland->Social life and customs, Polish Americans->Social conditions. Contributors: William Thomas - Author. Format: PaperbackDescription #2 by Alibris:
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.Friday, February 22, 2013
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (General Military)
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (General Military)
Prit Buttar (Author)
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The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished.
From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this handsome volume from Osprey recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously unseen testimony and astute strategic analysis recognizing a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering. Author Prit Buttar spins a mesmerizing tale accompanied by rare photographs and informative maps.
- Rank: #76436 in Books
- Published on: 2010-09-21
- Released on: 2010-09-21
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 1.90" h x 6.32" w x 9.40" l, 2.05 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 512 pages
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Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. He has written a novel, but this is his first work of military history.The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished.brbrFrom the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously unseen testimony and astute strategic analysis recognising a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.brbrHardcover edition ISBN: 9781849081900A powerful pick... It comes packed with action shots and photos, first-hand accounts from soldiers on both sides - most of which have never appeared in English - and follows the months between the arrival of the Red Army in Germany to the collapse of Hitler's regime. No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis. - The Midwest Book Review (December 2010)brbr...[a] marvelously written and illustrated new work with excellent maps on a series of battles too long overlooked ... deserves to be read by any true devotee of World War II. -iMilitary Advisor/i(Winter 2010/2011)Thursday, February 21, 2013
Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians after World War II
Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians after World War II
Diana Howansky Reilly (Author)
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Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In Scattered, Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resettlement was a common political tactic used against national minorities to create homogenous states.
Born in the Lemko region of southeastern Poland, Petro, Melania, and Hania Pyrtej survived World War II only to be separated by political decisions over which they had no control. Petro relocated with his wife to Soviet Ukraine during the population exchange of 1944–46, while his sisters Melania and Hania were resettled to western Poland through Operation Vistula in 1947. As the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought resettlement, the Polish government meanwhile imprisoned suspected sympathizers within the Jaworzno concentration camp. Melania, Reilly's maternal grandmother, eventually found her way to the United States during Poland's period of liberalization in the 1960s.
Drawing on oral interviews and archival research, Reilly tells a fascinating, true story that provides a bottom-up perspective and illustrates the impact of extraordinary historical events on the lives of ordinary people. Tracing the story to the present, she describes survivors' efforts to receive compensation for the destruction of their homes and communities.
- Rank: #592786 in Books
- Published on: 2013-05-us.html
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
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Scattered : Hardback : University of Wisconsin Press : 9780299293406 : 0299293408 : 15 May 2013 : Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In "Scattered," Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resetDescription #3 by eCampus.com:
Scattered : The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians after World War II, ISBN-13: 9780299293406, ISBN-10: 0299293408The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
Wladyslaw Szpilman (Author)
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Categories: Jan/Feb 2001 Book Magazine Book Club Recommendations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)->Poland->Warsaw->Personal narratives. Contributors: Wladyslaw Szpilman - Author. Format: PaperbackDescription #2 by Barnes & Noble:
Categories: Jan/Feb 2001 Book Magazine Book Club Recommendations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)->Poland->Warsaw->Personal narratives, Jewish musicians->Biography. Contributors: Wladyslaw Szpilman - Author. Format: NOOK BookDescription #3 by Textbooks.com:
by Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wilm Hosenfeld, Andrzej Szpilman and Bell Trans. - MacMillan Higher Education (1999) - Paperback - ISBN 0312311354 9780312311353Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
Clara Kramer (Author), Stephen Glantz (Author)
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“A superlative memoir of survival….Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide.”
—Daily Telegraph (London)
“One Girl’s Story of Survival,” Clara’s War is based on Clara Kramer’s diary of her years spent hiding in an underground bunker with seventeen other people during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank—a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and cramped quarters—Clara’s War is a true story of the Holocaust as told by a remarkable young girl who lived to bear witness.
- Rank: #22832 in Books
- Published on: 2010-04-us.html
- Released on: 2010-04-us.html
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .87" h x 6.32" w x 8.00" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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The publication of Kramer's heartwrenching memoir of survival--hiding from the Nazis in an underground bunker with 17 other people--coincides with the observation of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2009. b&w photo insert. *Author: Kramer, Clara/ Glantz, Stephen *Binding Type: Hardcover *Number of Pages: 339 *Publication Date: 2009/04/21 *Language: English *Dimensions: 8.30 x 5.70 x 1.10 inchesSunday, February 17, 2013
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Halik Kochanski (Author)
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The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews. In The Eagle Unbowed, Halik Kochanski tells, for the first time, the story of Poland's war in its entirety, a story that captures both the diversity and the depth of the lives of those who endured its horrors.
Most histories of the European war focus on the Allies' determination to liberate the continent from the fascist onslaught. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history.
- Rank: #12251 in Books
- Published on: 2012-11-27
- Released on: 2012-10-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.17" h x 6.38" w x 1.73" l, 2.48 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 784 pages
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