Memoirs Of A Girl From Berlin

Author : Susanne Lang
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781546219545

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Memoirs of a Girl from Berlin by Susanne Lang Pdf

Many children of World War II have stories to tell. Memoirs of a Girl from Berlin is the compelling story of one young girls strength, courage and will to survive during the changing political scene of 1930s and post war Germany. Gisela Becker lived through many tragedies and near-death experiences during Germanys harsh Nazi regime and the cruel Russian occupation that followed. Written in her own words, with the help of her daughter, we follow Gisela Beckers history and memories through some of the worst experiences of war during her childhood. Giselas greatest fear of abandonment became reality many times. She witnessed atrocities that most of us cannot even imagine. People were starving to death, slaughtered because they werent the right nationality or raped just because they were female no matter what their age. While the people of West Germany began to rebuild their lives, the people of Berlin and East Germany continued to suffer at the hands of the Russians. Memoirs of a Girl from Berlin will take you through a time you hope you will never see yourself.

Author : Marie Jalowicz Simon
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345809711

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Underground in Berlin by Marie Jalowicz Simon Pdf

By turns thrilling and terrifying, Underground in Berlin is the autobiographical account of a young Jewish woman who ripped off her yellow star and survived the war by going underground from 1942 to 1945. Berlin, 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie decides to survive. She takes off the yellow star, turns her back on the Jewish community and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost 20 different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, and many of those she stays with expect services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists and even convinced Nazis. Any false move might lead to arrest. Never certain who can be trusted and how far, it is her quick-witted determination and the most amazing and hair-raising strokes of luck that ensure her survival. Underground in Berlin is Marie's extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, for the first time after more than 50 years of silence.

Author : Gisela R. McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588200744

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Memoirs of a 1000-Year-Old Woman by Gisela R. McBride Pdf

The Mortgage Millionaire is designed to draw you into an interview between ghost-writer and mortgage trainer. This method allows you to relax and eavesdrop on the conversation, opening up your mind and allowing for creative thought. As the interview progresses, deeper and more creative ideas are discussed, offering the kind of help most loan officers never get. This kind of intuitive training is rare. The Mortgage Millionaire attempts to bridge the gap between the industry and this rare look at real world, experience-based, training. It is a must read for anyone wishing to better their sales ability and closing production.

Author : Lucia Berlin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374718329

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Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin Pdf

"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday and HuffPost A compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life. From Alaska to Argentina, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin’s world was wide. And the writing here is, as we’ve come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise.

Author : Gad Beck,Frank Heibert
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299165043

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An Underground Life by Gad Beck,Frank Heibert Pdf

That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.

Author : Kerstin Lieff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762789740

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Letters From Berlin by Kerstin Lieff Pdf

When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II, she and her younger brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. Like countless citizens under Hitler’s regime, Margarete struggled to understand what was happening to her country. Later, as a nurse for the German Red Cross, she treated countless young soldiers—recruited in the eleventh hour to fight a losing battle—they would die before her eyes as Allied bombs racked her beloved city. Yet, her deep humanity, intelligence, and passion for life—which sparkles in every sentence of her memoir—carried Margarete through to war’s end. But just when she thought the worst was over, and she and her mother were on a train headed to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia… This powerful account draws back the curtain on a piece of history that has been largely overlooked—the nightmare that millions of German civilians suffered, simply because they were German. That Margarete survived to tell her tale so vividly and courageously is a gift to us all.

Author : Mary Ellin Barrett
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439170967

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Irving Berlin by Mary Ellin Barrett Pdf

Written by his eldest daughter, this touching memoir shares the life of the man behind some of the nation’s favorite songs, including “God Bless America,” “White Christmas,” and “There’s No Business Life Show Business.” Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir is an affectionate, intimate, and frank memoir of America’s most famous and enduring songwriter of the century including exclusive photos. “A dramatic and wonderfully touching book. It is the first biography that really gives you a sense of who the mysterious Irving Berlin really was. — Michael Feinstein

Author : Evelyn Joseph Grossman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9493231100

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Hidden in Berlin by Evelyn Joseph Grossman Pdf

Lilo was just a teenager when the Nazis took away her parents in 1942. She never saw them again. When they also took away her brother she was alone at 19 years in a dangerous world. Until she heard one familiar voice call her name.

Author : Jonathan Lichtenstein
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316540995

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The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein Pdf

A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, upon arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. Growing up in post-war rural Wales where the conflict was never spoken of, Jonathan and his siblings were at a loss to understand their father's relentless drive and sometimes eccentric behavior. As Hans enters old age, he and Jonathan set out to retrace his journey back to Berlin. Written with tenderness and grace, The Berlin Shadow is a highly compelling story about time, trauma, family, and a father and son's attempt to emerge from the shadows of history.

Author : Lisa A. Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : WISC:89007244486

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The Rape of Berlin by Lisa A. Slater Pdf

Author : Bert Lewyn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462825622

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Holocaust Memoirs by Bert Lewyn Pdf

In 1942, Gestapo agents knocked on the door of the Lewyn family. Bert Lewyn was a teenager, only 18 years old. Like thousands of other Jewish families, Bert, his mother and father were all arrested and taken away. His parents were deported to a concentration camp and Bert was conscripted as a slave laborer, forced to work in a weapons factory building machine guns for the German Wehrmacht. This is the story of Berts escape and subsequent struggle to survive on his own, living underground in Nazi Berlin.

Author : Gabrielle Robinson
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647420048

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Api’s Berlin Diaries by Gabrielle Robinson Pdf

A haunting personal story of Berlin at the end of the Third Reich—and an unflinching investigation into a family’s Nazi past When Gabrielle Robinson found her grandfather’s Berlin diaries, hidden behind books in her mother’s Vienna apartment, she made a shocking discovery—her beloved Api had been a Nazi. The entries record his daily struggle to survive in a Berlin that was 90% destroyed. Near collapse himself Api, a doctor, tried to help the wounded and dying in nightmarish medical cellars without cots, water or light. The dead were stacked in the rubble outside. Searching to understand why her grandfather had joined the Nazi party, Robinson retraces his steps in the Berlin of the 21st century. She reflects on German guilt, political responsibility, and facing the past. But she also remembers Api, who had given her a loving home in those cold and hungry post-war years. “This a must read for anyone interested in the German experience during WWII” —Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped Scroll up and click “buy now” to read Api’s Berlin Diaries today

Author : Rebecca Schuman
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250077660

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Schadenfreude, A Love Story by Rebecca Schuman Pdf

"This book is a wild and wonderful ride. Your guide, Rebecca Schuman, is a super-smart and very funny person who writes brilliantly about Germany and Germans (who are not what you think) and being young and insane and life in general and... just read it, OK?" -Dave Barry Sometimes Love Gets Lost in Translation You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? Or seeing a parking ticket on a Hummer? There’s a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans (of course) invented it. It’s Schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from others’ misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Slate columnist Rebecca Schuman—and this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with the kind of single-minded passion its Volk usually reserve for beer, soccer, and being right all the time. Let’s just say the affection isn’t mutual. Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in love – in love with a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that’s nearly impossible to master), a culture (that’s nihilistic, but punctual), and a landscape (that’s breathtaking when there’s not a wall in the way). Rebecca is an everyday, misunderstood 90’s teenager with a passion for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites, until two men walk into her high school Civics class: Dylan Gellner, with deep brown eyes and an even deeper soul, and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan’s backpack. These two men are the axe to the frozen sea that is Rebecca’s spirit, and what flows forth is a passion for all things German. First love might be fleeting, but Kafka is forever, and in pursuit of this elusive passion Rebecca will spend two decades stuttering and stumbling through German sentences, trying to win over a people who can’t be bothered. At once a snapshot of a young woman finding herself, and a country slowly starting to stitch itself back together after nearly a century of war (both hot and cold), Schadenfreude, A Love Story is an exhilarating, hilarious, and yes, maybe even heartfelt memoir proving that sometimes the truest loves play hard to get.

Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307809995

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WALL TO WALL by Mary Morris Pdf

Following her celebrated Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Mary Morris, still alone, still graced with her extraordinary gifts of narrative and observation, presents an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, she combines vivid portrayals of people and places with a more personal journey—in this case a search for roots, family, and her ancestral home in the Ukraine. Traveling across China and Mongolia to Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express and finally on to Berlin, Morris views the changing landscapes of nations and history. She encounters and converses with a colorful assortment of people from party-liners to dissidents, from ordinary men and women to the Moscow elite. Her journey, however, occurs against the backdrop of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. On the train and in Russia, Morris hears terrifying, contradictory reports of the condition of the region so near her intended destination outside of Kiev. In midst of this anxious situation, she is forced to make a momentous decision a continent away from family and loved ones, adding a complex inner counterpoint to the public crises unfolding around her. Bringing her skills with foreign languages and her facility with people to this journey, Mary Morris once again proves that she is, in the words of Times magazine, “a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and the bizarre.” Wall to Wall is a powerful travel memoir illuminated by the unique sensibility of one of our finest writers.

Author : Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561456819

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Eleanor's Story by Eleanor Ramrath Garner Pdf

An engrossing coming-of-age autobiography of a young American caught in Nazi Germany during World War II. During the Great Depression, when Eleanor is nine, her family moves from her beloved America to Germany, from which her parents had emigrated years before and where her father has been offered a job he cannot pass up. But when war suddenly breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, they realize returning to the United States isn't an option. They arrive in Berlin as enemy aliens. Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She and her brother are enrolled in German schools and in Hitler's Youth (a requirement). She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy. This compelling story is heart-racing at times and immerses readers in a first-hand account of Nazi Germany, surviving World War II as a civilian, and immigration.