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Author : Sarah Kaminsky
Release : 2016
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 406/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Adolfo Kaminsky by : Sarah Kaminsky
Download or read book Adolfo Kaminsky written by Sarah Kaminsky. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
Author : Selma Leydesdorff
Release : 2017-06-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 198/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sasha Pechersky by : Selma Leydesdorff
Download or read book Sasha Pechersky written by Selma Leydesdorff. This book was released on 2017-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, was considered suspect by the Russian government simply because he had been imprisoned. In this volume, Selma Leydesdorff describes the official silence in the Eastern Bloc about Pechersky’s role in the Sobibor escape and how an effort was made to recognize his actions. The narrative is based on eyewitness accounts from people in Pechersky’s life and a discussion of the mechanism of memory, mixing written sources with varied recollections and assessing the collisions of collective memory held by the East and the West. Specifically, this book critiques the ideological refusal of many societies to acknowledge the suffering of Jews at Sobibor. Offering fascinating insights into a crucial period of history, emphasizing that Jews were not passive in the face of German violence, and exploring the history of the Jews who fell victim to Stalinism after surviving Nazism, this is valuable reading for students and scholars of the Holocaust and the position of Jews under Communism.
Author : Monica Porter
Release : 2020-04-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Children Against Hitler by : Monica Porter
Download or read book Children Against Hitler written by Monica Porter. This book was released on 2020-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who went further and actually stood up to the Nazis. Here, for the first time, Monica Porter gathers together their stories from many corners of occupied Europe, showing how in a variety of audacious and inventive ways children as young as six resisted the Nazi menace, risking and sometimes even sacrificing their brief lives in the process: a heroism that until now has largely gone unsung. These courageous youngsters came from all classes and backgrounds. There were high school drop-outs and social misfits, brainy bookworms, the children of farmers and factory workers. Some lost their entire families to the war, yet fought on alone. Often more adept and fearless at resistance than adults, they exuded an air of guilessness and could slip more easily under the Nazi radar. But as nets tightened, many were captured, tortured or imprisoned, some paying the highest price – a life cut short by execution before they had even turned eighteen. These children were motivated by different ideals; patriotism, political conviction, their Christian beliefs, or revulsion at the brutality of the Third Reich. But what united them was their determination to strike back at an enemy which had deprived them of their freedom, their dignity - and their childhood.
Author : Sarah Kaminsky
Release : 2016
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 444/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Adolfo Kaminsky, a Forger's Life by : Sarah Kaminsky
Download or read book Adolfo Kaminsky, a Forger's Life written by Sarah Kaminsky. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
Author : Nina Wolff Feld
Release : 2014-08-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Someday You Will Understand by : Nina Wolff Feld
Download or read book Someday You Will Understand written by Nina Wolff Feld. This book was released on 2014-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium. On the eve of the German invasion, in May 1940, the family began its second escape. Their sixteen-month odyssey took them through the chaos of battle in France and the dangers of living clandestinely as Jews in occupied territory, before they finally boarded the notorious freighter SS Navemar in Cadiz, Spain, to be among the last Jewish refugees admitted to the United States before Pearl Harbor. Within two years of his arrival in the States, Walter was ready to take the fight back to the Nazis as a soldier in the U.S. Army. Trained for the Intelligence Corps at Camp Ritchie, he was sent first to Italy and then to Germany and Austria, where he interrogated POWs for potential prosecution as war criminals at Nuremburg. At the same time, on his travels in Europe he returned to the confiscated properties of his extended family, throwing out the occupiers and reclaiming ownership. Telling the rousing story of a Jewish boy who fled persecution and returned to prosecute the Nazi oppressors, Walter Wolff’s daughter Nina has reconstructed these events from family lore and her father’s own cache of more than 700 wartime letters and 200 photographs, which he revealed to her shortly before he died. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
