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Author | : Margot Richens |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1460235525 |
Margot Richens grew up in Nazi Germany. In school she learned obedience and self-repression. Her table grace: "Fold your hands, bow your head, and thank the Fuehrer for your bread." She belonged to the Hitler Youth, and she sold blue advent candles for Hitler. During the war, she survived the bombing and escaped the raping of two million females as Germany collapsed. Then Margot speaks of infestations of lice and scabies, of no heat and stealing coal, of root canals without anesthesia, of eating dogs, even of cannibalism. She speaks of refugee camps and deportations to Russia. Every male seemed a predator, and Communist oppression replaced Nazi oppression as the Soviets "liberated everything dear to us." Then came her harrowing escape westward. Through all the terror, the love for her mother runs through her memoir like a golden thread-the saving uplift to the benumbing cruelties of the Nazis and Soviets, the belittling unkindness of her father, and the uncaring thoughtlessness of the alcoholic, Canadian soldier she married. In 1955 the newly-weds arrived in Canada where Margot, bearing the weight of past and present, began her search for self-expression and her own light......
Author | : Margot Richens |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1460235533 |
Margot Richens grew up in Nazi Germany. In school she learned obedience and self-repression. Her table grace: “Fold your hands, bow your head, and thank the Fuehrer for your bread.” She belonged to the Hitler Youth, and she sold blue advent candles for Hitler. During the war, she survived the bombing and escaped the raping of two million females as Germany collapsed. Then Margot speaks of infestations of lice and scabies, of no heat and stealing coal, of root canals without anesthesia, of eating dogs, even of cannibalism. She speaks of refugee camps and deportations to Russia. Every male seemed a predator, and Communist oppression replaced Nazi oppression as the Soviets “liberated everything dear to us.” Then came her harrowing escape westward. Through all the terror, the love for her mother runs through her memoir like a golden thread—the saving uplift to the benumbing cruelties of the Nazis and Soviets, the belittling unkindness of her father, and the uncaring thoughtlessness of the alcoholic, Canadian soldier she married. In 1955 the newly-weds arrived in Canada where Margot, bearing the weight of past and present, began her search for self-expression and her own light...
Author | : Szyfra Alexandra Braitberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Masha Gessen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Grandmothers |
ISBN | : 9780747570806 |
This is a story of 20th-century Russia through the lives of two extraordinary women.
Author | : Elizabeth Griffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781479132577 |
Margot was five years old when Hitler invaded Poland during WWII. Her story tells the remarkable account of her mother leading five children to safety through war-torn Europe.
Author | : Christa Lundh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-02-25 |
Genre | : Germans |
ISBN | : 9789768230645 |
A remarkable story of one woman's courage and compassion for her family amidst the turmoil of World War II and migration from Germany to Jamaica. The book chronicles the life of Christa Lundh and her family through three generations. The family story begins in 1924, highlighting the various triumphs and sorrows of daily existence as the children came of age under the tumultuous regime of Hitler and Stalin.
Author | : Margot Pampel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780980846096 |
Margot Pampel's memoir tells a most uncommon story - that of a Jewish girl living and working under her own name in Germany throughout the Nazi era. Born of a Jewish mother and a Gentile father, Margot's early life in post-World War I Jena was filled with the simple joys of family, friends, holidays and the excitement of being part of a progressive, egalitarian school. When Margot was eight years old, her father died suddenly. Her widowed mother struggled to provide financially for them both, a task that became increasingly difficult after Hitler rose to power. In 1933 Margot's mother was persuaded to have her daughter baptized in the hope of protecting her from the Aryan laws. Margot was not, however, protected from the fear of discovery, which haunted her life as long as she remained in Germany. In late 1942, her mother was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where she died the following year. Through plain good luck and resourcefulness, Margot worked until the end of the war, escaped from East Germany and later met and married her husband Horst. In 1953, with their baby son, Michael, Horst and Margot migrated to Australia. Their daughter Felicity was born in Melbourne in 1956. As with most immigrants, their early years in Melbourne were difficult, but as Margot writes: 'I didn't need to make too many adjustments to cope with getting by on very little.' Margot told her story in German to her daughter, who then translated and transcribed it. Nonetheless, her voice comes through with clarity and reflects the determination which characterized her life. In addition to her life story, the book is enriched by Margot's later reflections on her life, a tribute to her mother and insightful pieces by her daughter. There are many lessons to be learned from this book, while at the same time sharing the unique experiences of a very courageous woman.
Author | : O. Håkan Palm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Mormon converts |
ISBN | : 9781609078478 |
Author | : Joachim Fest |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312423926 |
Relates the final days of World War II in a study of Hitler's final days in the bunker and the torment in Germany's cities and towns as the Third Reich collapsed under the weight of American, British, French, and Russian forces.
Author | : Harrison Evans Salisbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Vivid personal account of the crucial years before Stalin's death and the turbulent months that followed.