Ave Maria In Auschwitz

Author : Felicia Karo Weingarten
Publisher : DeForest Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1930374151

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Ave Maria in Auschwitz by Felicia Karo Weingarten Pdf

Felicia Weingarten has saved poetic expressions of her life for us in this collection of short stories from WWII Poland and her experiences of surviving the Lodz ghetto and four concentration camps during the Holocaust. The stories are powerful not so much in how they speak to our minds but how they tear into our hearts. We are drawn into Felicias life vicariously at first, as though a stranger watching from the sidelines. But as each story unfolds, oftentimes with a twist at the end, we are suddenly faced with our own humanity, our own survival, our own actions and our own conscience as human beings. We are led into the darkness holding hands with an innocent, yet hopeful and courageous teenager; we emerge as reflective, perhaps even changed people, because of our human experience shared with Felicia. These are stories that transcend time and place and challenge us to be people of integrity, hope and commitment.

Author : Lloyd Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0991478975

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Do You Know The Ave Maria Violin? by Lloyd Peace Pdf

This is a story based on historical facts. During World War I, there was a prisoner-of-war camp in western Japan called Bando. It was the only POW camp in the world where the captors and captives, as well as the residents in surrounding areas, developed friendships. A German POW named Klaus Berger, who belonged to the music troupe, discovered the significant role music plays in times of conflicts. A few decades later, the Nazi regime took advantage of music in the most horrific way, making it one of the saddest uses of music in the history of mankind. Klaus volunteers to go to Auschwitz in an attempt to save Hannah, a Jewish violinist placed in the camp orchestra. One violin has been through both wars to witness the joyous, and then the tragic, history where music was involved. Present day in Japan, the violin now belongs to Asuka, who knows only peaceful times. She learned the history of the violin, and despite of the tremendous sadness she felt, little by little she begins to think about what she wants to do with her future. The book was published in Japan and has been translated into Vietnamese. It is a masterpiece of the 21st century that has made impressions on readers both young and old. It was selected as one of the assigned books for the 2014 National Book Report Contest for high school students. It was also the 2016 winner of Sakura Medal in Japanese Middle School & High School Books division, voted by the students from international schools across Japan, as one of their favorite books.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : abc.nl
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789491030444

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Auschwitz - Birkenau Orchestra by Anonim Pdf

The book contains a wealthy collection of actual quotes from the Second World War concentration camps prisoners and their approach to life at that time through music. The Orchestra consisted from three independent prisoners' orchestras that played on the territory of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Second Word War. The book represents their structure, mechanism of working and experiences of musicians.

Author : Stanley Goleniewski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514433720

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OUT of AUSCHWITZ by Stanley Goleniewski Pdf

The purpose of my book is to share with you and the word the tragic events which I witnessed and lived through. My experience constitutes and an unusual testimony which should not be forgotten but studied by future generations, to learn the ultimate truth about Auschwitz. I write this book to tell about my experience and what I witnessed. However, I still remember vividly, the smoke coming from the chimneys of the crematoria, the stench of burning human bodies, the hard work in rain and snow, hunger and horrendous fatigue, diseases, lice, fleas, bugs and bloody dysentery. I am the Holocaust survivor who remembers vividly the horrors of Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps.

Author : Balazs M. Mezei
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441198822

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Religion and Revelation After Auschwitz by Balazs M. Mezei Pdf

Religion After Auschwitz is a philosophical approach to the notion of revelation. Following such authors as A. Dulles, R. Swinburne, or K. Ward, Balazs Mezei investigates some of the main problems of revelation and connects them to the general problem of religion today. Religion is considered in the perspective of the age "after Auschwitz", an expression coined by Hans Jonas and further elaborated by J. B. Metz. Mezei develops the insights of these philosophers and investigates various aspects of religion and revelation "after Auschwitz": contemporary theistic philosophy, phenomenology, art, mysticism, and the question of university education today. A fascinating amalgam of subjects and approaches, Religion and Revelation After Auschwitz is an important contribution to contemporary discussions on the possibility of Catholic philosophy.

Author : Jean-Jacques Felstein
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399002820

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The Violinist of Auschwitz by Jean-Jacques Felstein Pdf

A son chronicles his Jewish mother’s real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II. Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the “opportunity” to join the women’s orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many years later, after gradually unearthing her unbelievable story following her premature death, without ever having revealed her secret to anyone . . . Jean-Jacques Felstein was determined to reconstruct Elsa’s life in Birkenau, and would go in search of other orchestra survivors in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Israel, and the United States. The recollections of Hélène, first violin, Violette, third violin, Anita, a cellist, and other musicians, allowed him to rediscover his twenty-year-old mother, lost in the heart of hell. The story unfolds in two intersecting stages: one, contemporary, is that of the investigation, the other is that of Auschwitz and its unimaginable daily life, as told by the musicians. They describe the recitals on which their very survival depended, the incessant rehearsals, the departure in the mornings for the forced labourers to the rhythm of the instruments, the Sunday concerts, and how Mengele pointed out the pieces in the repertoire he wished to listen to in between “selections.” In this remarkable book, Jean-Jacques Felstein follows in his mother’s footsteps and by telling her story, attempts to free her, and himself, from the pain that had been hidden in their family for so long.

Author : Millicent Joy Marcus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802091895

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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz by Millicent Joy Marcus Pdf

Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.

Author : Jaci Byrne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922387837

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The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV by Jaci Byrne Pdf

The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz. When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his beloved wife Mabel that he would return to lead his band and play for her once more. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkirk and interned in several German forced labour camps throughout Poland. Two years later he was transferred to Auschwitz IV, part of the notorious concentration camp complex where it is not widely known held Allied POWs. When his captors appointed Jackson their ‘Kapellmeister’ (man in charge of music), he seized the opportunity to provide entertainment for his fellow prisoners at rehearsals, and cover for escapees during concerts. Finally liberated in May 1945, malnourished and gravely ill, Jackson carried his secret war diary—an incredible exposé on five years of life and death in Nazi concentration camps. THE MUSIC MAKER OF AUSCHWITZ IV, based on Jackson’s diary, is written by his granddaughter. It is a thrilling testament to the resilience one man found in the darkest of times through his two greatest loves—music and the woman who waited for him.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442973671

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And The Rat Laughed (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Angels Anglada
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553807783

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The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada Pdf

Jewish violin maker Daniel endures the inhuman conditions of Auschwitz by doing carpentry work and is directed by the camp commander to craft a perfect violin or forfeit his life.

Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429923958

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The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie Pdf

The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common." A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.

Author : Patricia Herskovic
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9653081527

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Escape to Life by Patricia Herskovic Pdf

Caught in the crossfire of Nazi oppression, two people triumph in this story of courage, luck and passion during one of the darkest moments of the 20th Century. After surviving a perilous escape from Auschwitz's infamous death camps, William Herskovic miraculously made his way across Nazi-occupied Europe. Becoming one of the first recorded eyewitnesses of Hitler's atrocities, he alerted the underground, and was eventually credited with the rescue of hundreds, perhaps thousands, bound for the gas chambers. Mireille, still merely a teenager, managed to hide her parents in attics and rural homes, risking her life daily to venture out for the food to keep them alive. The Herskovic family survived the perils of the Holocaust with their souls and spirits soaring. Patricia Herskovicwas born in Belgium and immigrated to the United States as a child. She received her degree in political science from UCLA. Currently a motion picture producer, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Distributed for Yad Vashem Publications, Jerusalem

Author : Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 9780815411727

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Josephine by Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase Pdf

This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.

Author : Robert Towler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000228205

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The Need for Certainty by Robert Towler Pdf

Originally published in 1984, The Need for Certainty explores the different ways in which people can be religious within the conventional traditions of the main Christian denominations. Based on in-depth analysis of letters sent to John Robinson, then Bishop of Woolwich, after the publication of his book Honest to God, The Need for Certainty describes five contrasting ways of being religious and explores how, despite being mutually incompatible, they are able to coexist in the churches. In doing so, it argues that a proper grasp of this wide variation in styles of religiousness is a prerequisite for quantitative surveys of religion. Each contrasting religious style is explored in turn and illustrated with quotations from the original letters. The intense desire for religious certainty is extensively explored and presented as a debased, but common, form of religious aspiration that often leads to the degeneration of faith. The Need for Certainty is ideal for those with an interest in Christianity, the sociology of religion, and theology.

Author : Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461661092

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Josephine Baker by Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase Pdf

Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet Josephine was also, as one critic put it, "a monster who made Joan Crawford look like the Virgin Mary." Jean-Claude Baker's book also reveals her outbursts that resulted in lasting feuds, her imperious treatment of family and entourage members, and her ambivalent attitudes concerning her ethnic background. Reconciling Josephine's many personas—Jazz-age icon, national hero of France, proponent of Civil Rights, mother of children from across the globe—Josephine: The Hungry Heart gives readers the inside story on a star unlike any other before or since.