The wrenching memoir of a young man who survived the Holocaust by concealing his Jewish identity and finding unexpected refuge as a member of the Hitler Youth Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
"Inside Hitler's Bunker" combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.
In the movie SCHINDLER'S LIST, there is an image of a little girl in a red coat--and that child is Roma Ligocka, who tells her story in this poignant Holocaust memoir of the Krakow ghetto. Ligocka also brings her story up to date as she describes her subsequent life as an artist and mother in Munich.
We can't escape the effects of the forces we set in motion. In her last year at the university in Kiev and shortly before she is to take her final examinations, the narrator of this novel is persuaded by her roommate to go for a cruise on a large lake north of the city. While her friends dance in the ballroom below ship, the young woman stands on ...
Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be "toughened up" and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that ...
Fewer than half of all the German Jews, who were discriminated against, persecuted, and eventually murdered by the Nazis, were able to save themselves by fleeing abroad. Sadly, a large number, deeply rooted in German culture, were unwilling or unable to emigrate; after "Kristallnacht", the pogrom of 1938, the bureaucratic and financial obstacles ...
In 1939, Hertha Feiner sent her two daughters, Inge, age eleven, and Marion, age fourteen, to Switzerland to escape the tightening Nazi vise in Berlin. This book compiles fifty-seven of the letters Feiner sent to her daughters between 1939 and 1942. While Feiner was Jewish, her daughters' father, Johannes Asmus, was not and because of this he was ...
This text analyzes the effect that 40 years of repressive Communist rule had on the psychological state of the people in East Germany and outlines why it is likely to take a long time for East Germans to become responsible members of a democratic, free-market Germany.
By outlining the mental traps that keep women from asserting themselves and the submissive body language that signals passiveness to others, Ehrhardt reveals the learned constraints that have been holding women back from pursuing their own desires. By sharing clear, effective strategies for greater happiness, Ehrhardt provides the necessary tools ...
In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Hermann's stunning debut collection paints a vivid and poignant picture of a generation ready and anxious to turn their back on the past, to risk uncertainty in search of a fresh, if fragile, equilibrium. An international bestseller and translated into twelve languages, ...
Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be "toughened up" and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that ...
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