The Woman From Hamburg
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Author | : Hanna Krall |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590516443 |
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man refuses to let go of the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. He never knew the boy, yet he learns Polish to communicate with his dybbuk. A high ranking German officer conceives of a plan to kill Hitler after witnessing a mass execution of Jews in Eastern Poland. Through Krall's adroit and journalistic style, her reader is thrown into a world where love, hatred, compassion, and indifference appear in places where we least expect them, illuminating the implacable logic of the surreal. "It is precisely the difficult path [Krall] takes toward her topic that has made some of these texts masterpieces." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (on Dancing at Other People's Weddings) "Heartbreaking, strange . . . and marvelously told." -- Die Zeit (on Proofs of Existence)
Author | : Johanna Neumann |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2015-10-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781517749774 |
Johanna Jutta Neumann, nee Gerechter, was born in 1930 of a Jewish family in Hamburg. With the rise of the Nazis, she fled with her parents to Albania where she spent the Second World War. Her memoirs narrate the story of her childhood, of her years in Albania under Italian and German occupation, and of her family's survival."
Author | : Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Richard J. Evans |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2005-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014303636X |
"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." - Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the “cholera years” is, in Richard Evans’s hands, tragically revealing of the age’s social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world’s public-health landscape today, including the current coronavirus crisis.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : History of women |
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Author | : Glueckel (of Hameln) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781684580064 |
Author | : Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Nikola Sellmair |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1615192549 |
Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) and “a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity” (Booklist). At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Plaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her grandfather had met her—a black woman—he would have killed her. Teege’s discovery sends her into a severe depression—and fills her with questions: Why did her birth mother withhold this chilling secret? How could her grandmother have loved a mass murderer? Can evil be inherited? Teege’s story is cowritten by Nikola Sellmair, who also adds historical context and insight from Teege’s family and friends, in an interwoven narrative. Ultimately, Teege’s search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.
Author | : Gluckel |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-09-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307806383 |
Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.
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Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Women |
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