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A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's This Way To the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way To the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"

Autore: Gale, Cengage Learning

Numero di pagine: 21

A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way To the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Life Lines

Life Lines

Autore: Joseph Viertel

Numero di pagine: 532

From Simon & Schuster, Lines is Joseph Viertel's novel about the Russian Jew following his persecution—and the decisions he's forced to make as a result of it. When an eminent Russian Jewish pediatrician becomes the target of official persecution, he appeals to his American and Israeli cousins and must ultimately choose his future in Russia, America, or Israel.

A Study Guide for William Styron's Sophie's Choice

A Study Guide for William Styron's "Sophie's Choice"

Autore: Gale, Cengage Learning

Numero di pagine: 34

A Study Guide for William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

From Tarusa to Siberia

From Tarusa to Siberia

Autore: Anatoliĭ Marchenko

Numero di pagine: 158

Sergeant First Class Avi Grant's return to Tallgrass, Oklahoma is a long-deferred wish come true. With her final tour in Afghanistan over, Avi can focus on her future-a job here at home and a family of her own. There's just one thing she has to do first: visit her beloved commanding officer's widow and share her grief. The last thing she expected was to feel an instant attraction to the woman's son. Too bad the sexy surgeon is impossible to ignore . . . and even harder to resist. The sting of his parents' divorce still niggles at Ben Noble. So when a warm, funny, and beautiful young sergeant arrives, mourning his stepfather's loss as strongly as his mother does, Ben can't help but feel conflicted. If his parents taught him anything, it's that love doesn't last-especially with a career soldier. But try as he might to keep his distance, Ben begins to see that Avi-and the spark she brings to his life-is the stuff forever is made of. As Avi's leave ticks away, can Ben convince her.

Safe Conduct

Safe Conduct

Autore: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Numero di pagine: 264

Experimental in its category, Boris Pasternak's first autobiography, originally published after the great success of his Dr. Zhivago.

A Stolen Biography

A Stolen Biography

Autore: Szymon Szechter

Numero di pagine: 168

"Contains a masterful array of playful plot devices. By means of a broken clock, young Jozek is able to unite himself with Jozef, the man he is to become. Together, and with the help and hindrance of an omnipresent critic, they write a book - this book. There is a marvelous fairy tale atmosphere to the story, as Jozek's boyhood friends are in the next instant grown government officials and dissidents, and political decisions are reached about the doctrinal acceptability of the book even as it is written."--Publishers Weekly

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

Autore: Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Numero di pagine: 728

Part two of this trilogy, reveals the experience of the hard-labor camps in Soviet Russia.

April 1941

April 1941

Autore: V V Boumbashirevitch

Numero di pagine: 0

April, a season for weddings. Today is Sunday, April 6, 1941. Spring is in the air this morning, the city still asleep. A few people are attending mass or walking to the market. On a streetcar, a schoolteacher is analyzing a new book of philosophy for a review he will write. He is on a short ride up the hill to report for reserve duty at the King's Guard. Times are uncertain, and the aftereffects of the recent military coup are strangely absent. The coup was sparked by the city's outcry against the signing of a pact with three global empires. War has been averted. It is peacetime. In a few minutes, for millions of people, this Sunday will change life forever. The ensuing epic is what the schoolteacher had gambled against, by taking the oath of allegiance to his King. Soon, he will never see his family, friends, country-even his paintings and beloved cat-ever again. And he was one of the lucky ones. April 1941 is this soldier's story.

The Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl

The Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl

Autore: Sholem Aleichem

Numero di pagine: 192

This volume follows the hapless, albeit hilarious, adventures of Menachem-Mendl, a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of World War I. His wife and children are left behind in the shtetl of Kasrilevka.

In the Storm

In the Storm

Autore: Sholem Aleichem

Numero di pagine: 232

Three families of Jews who share the same address in Kiev -- a rich businessman, his Orthodox wife, and medical student daughter, an assimilated, anti-Zionist pharmacist and his son, and a poor shoemaker and his sons -- become caught in the turmoil of the 1905 Russian revolution.

Oskar Schindler and His List

Oskar Schindler and His List

Autore: Thomas Fensch

Numero di pagine: 312

Thomas Fensch pieces together articles and interviews to show how Keneally came to write Schindler's List; how Steven Spielberg brought this story to life on film; and how uncovering Schindler's rescue of Jewish lives has altered Holocaust awareness in our time.

Michael Strogoff

Michael Strogoff

Autore: Jules Verne

Numero di pagine: 408

Excerpt from Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar Without any, sire and it is to be feared that shortly despatches will no longer cross the Siberian frontier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Under the Frog

Under the Frog

Autore: Tibor Fischer

Numero di pagine: 264

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Under the Frog "follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.

PETER SCHLEMIHL

PETER SCHLEMIHL

Autore: Adelbert Von 1781-1838 Chamisso

Numero di pagine: 198

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Zhid

Zhid

Autore: Marvin A. Goldberg

Numero di pagine: 166

Zhid A Russian Odyssey by Marvin A. Goldberg (Copyright 2006) Zhid A Russian Odyssey first explores Jewish family life in pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia. It then goes on to illustrate how one family's personal political values changed or intensified affecting their lives once they immigrated to the United States. In the United States each branch of the Zhidovetsky/Goldberg family reacted differently to their newly found freedoms. One embraced socialist and later communist values while others followed the democratic and capitalistic viewpoints of their new country. The most famous of these first generation Americans was Ella Goldberg Wolfe, wife of Bertram David Wolfe, the noted Russian historian and author. Bert and Ella's lives were closely knit with that of the New York socialist intelligentsia in the early 1900s. Their changing views on peace, socialism, communism and later anti-communism were part of their process of awakening to their "Americanism." Both were members of New York's Greenwich Village "Lyric Left" that included John (Jack) Reed, Jay Lovestone, Max Eastman, Emma Goldmann, and Eugene O'Neill, among others. Ella was interviewed for Warren Beatty's biopic about...

The Librarian of Auschwitz (Special Edition)

The Librarian of Auschwitz (Special Edition)

Autore: Antonio Iturbe

Numero di pagine: 448

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, the award-winning The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope. This edition includes bonus material. Godwin Books

A Replacement Life

A Replacement Life

Autore: Boris Fishman

Numero di pagine: 336

In this highly acclaimed literary debut, a failed journalist is asked to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for older Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has--as a Jew in the war, as a second-class citizen in the USSR, as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him--Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American, but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law abiding to become an American; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a...

Grass in the Storm

Grass in the Storm

Autore: Andrew J. Szabo

Numero di pagine: 382

This is an autobiography, i.e. a memoir. The first volume starts with my memories from childhood, under the authoritarian Horthy government, continues with my escape from the staging area, where the nazi ArrowCross man took me to deport to the concentration camps in Germany. In the next chapters I describe my life hiding first in a Catholic monastery, than at the home of our former housekeeper. After the war the chapters contain my memories about school, friends, and my first loves, and finally the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and my escape to the West. The second volume contains my experiences as an immigrant, then my life as a medical student at McGill University in Montreal, my married life, my postgraduate training and finally, my immigration to the United States. In this part I describe my work as a professor, as a researcher and as a doctor. I write about the difficulties of married life of two professionals, both without money, about the problems and rewards of having a child. At the end I write about my retirement, about finding a partner after my wife's death, and about my conclusions about the life, the World and in particular the US.

Chasing Tomorrow

Chasing Tomorrow

Autore: Kera Martin Race

Numero di pagine: 328

Chasing Tomorrow is based on the true story of a young Polish Jew separated from his family in 1939 who outruns the Nazis and survives the war alone. Zygmunt Schwager is the scrappy second son of a tailor living in western Poland. As rumors of the trouble brewing in Europe come to his village, no one believes the conflict will reach them. But Zygmunt is afraid. He travels to the nearest city to confirm the reports. In his absence, Nazi forces advance and he cannot return home. So he runs. With only his wits and his cunning nature to rely on, he heads east through Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan, never knowing whether he will see another sunrise. Fifty years after his arrival in New York, Zygmunt remains a cold and distant man. His daughter Karinna cannot understand why her many requests for his story have always been dismissed. When he finally agrees to tell her, Karinna discovers a deeply broken and lonely man. In order to repair their relationship, she must confront her mistaken beliefs and embrace the man she never knew.

A World Problem: Jews-Poland-Humanity; A Psychological and Historical Study. / Translated from Polis

A World Problem: Jews-Poland-Humanity; A Psychological and Historical Study. / Translated from Polis

Autore: Stefanja Laudyn

Numero di pagine: 366

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

CliffsNotes on Wiesel's Night

CliffsNotes on Wiesel's Night

Autore: Maryam Riess

Numero di pagine: 72

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on Night, you follow the humanistic first-person account of a teenage boy's incarceration by the Nazi Secret Service in World War II; his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps; and his struggle to find meaning among the horror. Covering little more than a year of the young narrator's life, this study guide shares a story about endurance, loyalty, and faith — all nurtured by the strength of love. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Life and background of the author, Dr. Elie Wiesel A list of characters A historical timeline of Nazi Germany A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics A selected bibliography that leads you to more great resources Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Poland

Poland

Autore: James Albert Michener

Numero di pagine: 639

Like the heroic land that is its subject, Poland teems with vivid events and unforgettable characters in the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries. In a tradition of resistance to barbarian Tatar invaders and brutal Nazi occupiers, with a heritage of pride that burns through eras of romantic passion and courageous solidarity, three Polish families live out their destinies and - and the drama of a nation.

Woman's Endurance

Woman's Endurance

Autore: A. D. (august D. ) Luckhoff

Numero di pagine: 44

Woman's Endurance by A. D (August D.) Luckhoff Bethulie Concentration Camp, August, 1901. Wednesday, August 21.-Arrived station 8.30 a.m. (from Bloemfontein); tedious delay; no pass to village obtainable, official in village for breakfast; number of refugees in same train, among them a sick girl, with fever: "Pappie, Pappie, ach mij ou Pappie!" ("Daddy, daddy! O my dear daddy!" Thus she cried whenever she was touched, as they carried her out of the train, and lifted her on to the wagon. She was fever-stricken and terribly emaciated. (Reference is made later to this same girl.) Alas! Arrival village; visit parsonage (Becker's); dinner; things forwarded per wagon; arrival camp (mile out); meet superintendent; given a tent; dust; misery; the Van As's offer me a home; kind; bitter cold night; leakage; bad draught; bad cold; feel lonesome; orphanish; pipe to rescue; great consolation. Thursday, August 22.-My tent untenable position; in the thoroughfare; speak Superintendent; obtain new site; private; buy 150 bricks 1s. 6d., hire three boys, barrow 1s. 3d.; with miershoop (antheap, excellent for making floor) make brick kraal; hard work; Mr. Van As and Fourie grand; fine floor. First...

Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski

Autore: James Park Sloan

Numero di pagine: 536

National Book Award finalist James Park Sloan offers a definitive biography of literary giant Jerzy Kosinski, the strange, enigmatic author of The Painted Bird and Steps. Sloan, who knew Kosinski during the last 20 years of his life, reconciles the public figure with the troubled inner man who eventually took his own life.

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Autore: Peter Manseau

Numero di pagine: 0

An immigrant's epic saga, an unlikely friendship, and a love story that spans the entire twentieth century -- from a goose-plucking factory in Russia via New York to a book warehouse in Boston -- Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is one of the most captivating, breathtaking and heart-wrenching books of the year.

A Master Plan for Rescue

A Master Plan for Rescue

Autore: Janis Cooke Newman

Numero di pagine: 338

"Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, A Master Plan for Rescue is an enchanting novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is two love stories. It is the story of a child who worships his parents, then loses his father to an accident and his mother to her resulting grief. And it is the story of a young man who stumbles into the romance of his life, then watches her decline, forever changing the arc of his future. Each is propelled by the belief that if he acts heroically enough, it will restore some part of what - or whom - he has lost. But when they meet, this boy and this man, their combined grief and magical thinking will allow them to dream the impossible. Sharing stories of the people they have lost, they are inspired to join forces and act in their memory. To do something so memorable that it might actually bring their loved ones back - even if only in spirit"--

The Demand and Price Situation

The Demand and Price Situation

Autore: U. S. Bureau Of Agricultural Economics

Numero di pagine: 28

Excerpt from The Demand and Price Situation: July 1944 Civilian purchasing power is at or near the highest on record. Nonagricultural income payments, which had declined slightly in March and April l9uh, increased in May to approximately their peak level of February 19h. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Child in the House

The Child in the House

Autore: Walter Pater

Numero di pagine: 62

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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