Babushka S Journey

Author : Marcel Krueger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786723840

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Babushka's Journey by Marcel Krueger Pdf

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cacilie, Cilly for short, into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow-covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the Soviet labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. Chasing the sights, sounds and voices of past and present along this route, the author has created both fictionalised historical narrative and contemporary travelogue, covering two different journeys that follow the same path. As he stumbles through the bars of present-day Poland and dreams on the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, Krueger forges an authentic retelling of Cilly's tragic yet hopeful story, discovering that her journey reflects tens of thousands of similar personal histories, which continue to haunt Germany, Poland and Russia today.

Author : Marion Mutala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Easter stories
ISBN : 1927756588

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Baba's Babushka by Marion Mutala Pdf

When the wind brings Natalia another babushka just like the ones her Baba used to wear, the young girl goes on a magical journey to a springtime in the past and discovers the Easter traditions of her Ukrainian heritage.

Author : David Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393245905

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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Pdf

Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin. Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists. Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a 6,000-mile cross-country trip from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. In quadruple-bunked cabins and stopover towns sprinkled across the country’s snowy landscape, Greene speaks with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. These travels offer a glimpse of the new Russia—a nation that boasts open elections and newfound prosperity but continues to endure oppression, corruption, a dwindling population, and stark inequality. We follow Greene as he finds opportunity and hardship embodied in his fellow train travelers and in conversations with residents of towns throughout Siberia. We meet Nadezhda, an entrepreneur who runs a small hotel in Ishim, fighting through corrupt layers of bureaucracy every day. Greene spends a joyous evening with a group of babushkas who made international headlines as runners-up at the Eurovision singing competition. They sing Beatles covers, alongside their traditional songs, finding that music and companionship can heal wounds from the past. In Novosibirsk, Greene has tea with Alexei, who runs the carpet company his mother began after the Soviet collapse and has mixed feelings about a government in which his family has done quite well. And in Chelyabinsk, a hunt for space debris after a meteorite landing leads Greene to a young man orphaned as a teenager, forced into military service, and now figuring out if any of his dreams are possible. Midnight in Siberia is a lively travel narrative filled with humor, adventure, and insight. It opens a window onto that country’s complicated relationship with democracy and offers a rare look into the soul of twenty-first-century Russia.

Author : David Yellin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351812979

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Sharing the Journey: Literature for Young Children by David Yellin Pdf

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years. Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.

Author : Sandra Ann Horn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484411781

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Babushka by Sandra Ann Horn Pdf

Meet Babushka, a woman who is so busy focusing on the little things, that she hardly notices the miraculous events going on around her. This touching Christmas story shows that the more you give away in love, the more you will receive.

Author : Marion Mutala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Ukrainians
ISBN : 1927756065

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Baba's Babushka by Marion Mutala Pdf

The wind bring Natalia a babushka just like the ones her Baba used to wear, taking the young girl on a magical journey to an autumn long ago to discover the wedding traditions of her Ukrainian heritage.

Author : John Friesen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532056598

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The Journey of Little Hans by John Friesen Pdf

1941. As German soldiers penetrate into USSR, the fate of a Russian-born German baby buried alive in a bombing raid unravels behind a curtain of innocence. As the tide of the fierce conflict shifts, an exodus takes him westward toward Germany, where he becomes separated from his mother, leading him to return parentless to Russia where he’s forced to suffer the consequences of a German invasion that he knew nothing of, yet he is nonetheless held accountable for. Starving and homeless, with only an ailing grandma by his side, little Hans faces a treacherous journey for survival that takes him into direct confrontation with hungry wolves, starving and anger-ridden locals, freezing conditions, the KGB, and murderous Russian gangs. Despite being shot and poisoned, Hans’s destiny continues. As a man, Hans comes into contact with distant relatives who help him answer the enduring question regarding the mysterious disappearance of his mother.

Author : Marion Mutala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988783615

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Baba's Babushka by Marion Mutala Pdf

Author : Joyce Antler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439138380

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The Journey Home by Joyce Antler Pdf

A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Babushkas Basket by Anonim Pdf

Author : James S. Kessler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483444857

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Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian’s Journey Through the Post-Ottoman World by James S. Kessler Pdf

There is no dearth of news, not always of the most cheerful sort, coming out of the broad geographic arc of the vast territory that once constituted the mighty Ottoman Empire. The Arab Spring continues to reshape regions, an economic crisis is tearing apart Greece, pirates off the Horn of Africa are terrorizing ships, and conflicts in the Caucasus and Balkans are simmering. In Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian's Journey through the Post-Ottoman World, James S. Kessler chronicles his travels through a dizzying array of cultures, religions, languages, and political systems found within many of the former Ottoman Empire's possessions in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing upon his experience as a historian and educator, Kessler explores how the shared Ottoman past-and how that past is remembered-continues to play a role in the post-imperial present in the more than forty countries that constitute the post-Ottoman world.

Author : Andrew Meier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393242065

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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier Pdf

"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue, and unflinching reportage. Throughout, Meier captures the country's present limbo—a land rich in potential but on the brink of staggering back into tyranny—in an account that is by turns heartrending and celebratory, comic and terrifying. A 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember. "Black Earth is the best investigation of post-Soviet Russia since David Remnick's Resurrection. Andrew Meier is a truly penetrating eyewitness."—Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror; "If President Bush were to read only the chapters regarding Chechnya in Meier's Black Earth, he would gain a priceless education about Putin's Russia."—Zbigniew Brzezinski "Even after the fall of Communism, most American reporting on Russia often goes no further than who's in and who's out in the Kremlin and the business oligarchy. Andrew Meier's Russia reaches far beyond . . . this Russia is one where, as Meier says, history has a hard time hiding. Readers could not easily find a livelier or more insightful guide."—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin "From the pointless war in Chechnya to the wild, exhilarating, and dispiriting East and the rise of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer—it's all here in great detail, written in the layers the story deserves, with insight, passion, and genuine affection."—Michael Specter, staff writer, The New Yorker; co-chief, The New York Times Moscow Bureau, 1995-98. "[Meier's] knowledge of the country and his abiding love for its people stands out on every page of this book....But it is his linguistic fluency, in particular, which enables Mr. Meier to dig so deeply into Russia's black earth."—The Economist "A wonderful travelogue that depicts the Russian people yet again trying to build a new life without really changing their old one."—William Taubman, The New York Times Book Review.

Author : Catherine Flores
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838022333

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The Story of Babushka (Colouring Book) by Catherine Flores Pdf

The Story Of Babushka colouring book is a companion book that goes alongside the illustrated children's book "The Story Of Babushka" The book comes with over forty-five wonderful line-drawn illustrations ready for children to colour in! Recommended use with colouring pencils, and crayons. Please note this book comes without the written story and is meant to compliment the written story.

Author : Vincent Horn,Cornelia Schweppe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317630036

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Transnational Aging by Vincent Horn,Cornelia Schweppe Pdf

This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.

Author : Jason Toll
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462849772

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Moscow Bound by Jason Toll Pdf

Most people are happy to spend their four weeks annual holiday relaxing by the sea, but not Jason Toll. So strap yourself in readers, because Toll is going to take you on the journey of a lifetime in his book, Moscow Bound. This autobiographical account, accompanied with photos, follows Jason Toll, a young Australian surfing nomad, as he backpacks through some of the most captivating and extreme locations on the planet. A luckless traveller, Jason’s journey begins in war-torn Kosovo, but when he suspects that he is the target of a kidnap plot, he flees on an exciting expedition across both Eastern and Western Europe. Along the way, he traces his family heritage to the death camp of Auschwitz; he loses his passport in the Arctic; he nearly drowns whilst surfing in Morocco; he survives a night on a frozen Siberian lake in a self-made igloo; plus he experiences many other thrilling events. The journey culminates in Moscow, under a veil of illegitimate employment and gorgeous women, but not before the Russian secret service arrest Jason for spying. From Paris to Amsterdam; Kosovo to Warsaw; Stockholm to The Arctic; Siberia to Moscow; this is a trip like no other. Moscow Bound will absorb readers until the captivating end unfolds.