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Author : Eli Leyton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524683221
My brother recorded my parents lives more than thirty years ago.
Author : Trudie Richman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465305145
Trudie Richman considers herself a lucky Holocaust survivor. She, along with her five siblings and both parents, escaped the horrors of Nazi Europe. Escape from Vienna is a redemptive and ultimately uplifting memoir, beginning with Trudie at just three years of age losing her biological mother. Richman´s story takes another dramatic turn when Hitler annexes Austria. A sheltered, naive and terrified 14-year old Richman struggles on her own to reach America´s secure shores. Escape from Vienna´s narrative has an innocent quality and is not horrific like other Holocaust memoirs, thought it does have some sad vignettes. The memoir is also appropriate for young readers, who would be inspired with Richman´s ability as a teenager to learn English, graduate high school early and earn a scholarship to college. Richman is an accomplished poet and musician. Two of her folk recordings are on the prestigious Smithsonian Folkways label. Visit her website: www.TrudieRichman.com.
Author : Haylo Karres
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783750478671
A family training the art of survival. Based on the real story of a family of traders and craftsman in Transilvania. About the life and works of German settlers in foreign lands, the Ottoman domination, the Balkan war as well as the first and second World War, the Exodus and new beginning in different continents.
Author : Jon Parr
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105187278
Author : Philipp Weingartner
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525589874
How do you find the courage to go on when everything you knew is gone? That is a question faced by Philipp Weingartner several times in his life. Born into a family of insignificant farm labourers in a town, region, and country erased from our maps, Philipp set out on a journey—both geographical and spiritual—across the front lines of two World Wars, and eventually across an ocean to a new life in Canada. This biographic collaboration between Erich Weingartner and his late father Philipp's writings gives witness to the tenacity of the human spirit. It provides abundant affirmation that commitment to a life of faith can empower ordinary people to become extraordinary in times of great need. Based on diaries, letters, articles and sermons, A Journey of Faith details one man's lived experience of tragedy, survival, and a passion to serve the less fortunate.
Author : Katherine Ball Ross
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402746822
A timeless collection of memoirs, culled from the pages of Victoria magazine, by some of the finest women writers around. Such distinguished authors as Diane Ackerman, Jane Howard, Perri Klass, Madeleine L’Engle, Susan Minot, Francine Prose, Carol Shields, and Jane Smiley have contributed to these pages—and their emotionally rich, lovingly crafted essays embrace all phases of a woman’s life, as well as literature and the process of writing itself. The topics so insightfully and often poignantly explored include childhood, motherhood, solitude, rituals, home, sisters, and remembering the past. From Phyllis Theroux’s memories of her convent education to Susan Schneider’s thoughts on living in “A Gently Haunted House,” each piece will touch your heart, mind, and soul.
Author : Diana Raab
Publisher : Modern HIstory Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615997640
Explore the depths of love and loss across three generations of women Hummingbird is a spiritual memoir about the connection between three generations of women--the author, her mother and her beloved maternal grandmother whose wisdoms taught the author how to exist in the world by following her intuition and listening to her heart. Follow Diana on a journey of more than five decades as an author, nurse, research psychologist, teacher, cancer survivor, and more. With insightful prompts, the reader is also invited to explore their own ancestral connections. "...Raab offers poignant and thoughtful insights to help us heal intergenerational trauma. Raab rightly reminds us that our ancestors live on in us and we are invited to call on them anytime we need help..." -- SONIA CHOQUETTE, New York Times bestselling author, The Answer is Simple and Ask Your Guides "Diana Raab knows the terrain of the human heart... she invites readers to reflect upon their own life's journeys and to use writing and journaling to navigate a pathway for healing..." -- TERRA TREVOR, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways "Hummingbird is not only a poignant spiritual memoir, it is an invitation. Raab is accessible and authentic... She opens hearts and deftly offers insightful prompts, sweetly encouraging the reader's collaboration." -- MARILYN KAPP, author of Love is Greater Than Pain "With disarming honesty, Raab slows down our jittery minds to share the intimacies of experiencing trauma and healing self-care in a way that they feel as normal as sleeping and eating... A safety net for the reader to explore their own path to hope." -- TRISTINE RAINER, author of Your Life as Story, and The New Diary Learn more at www.DianaRaab.com
Author : Freddie Botur
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481746854
Jack Kramer: Freddie, nobody wants us. 1966 In 1966, when I had the Thirty-Fourth Street armory, Jack Kramer, the world famous player and promoter, approached me and asked me to put up fifteen thousand dollars in prize money for a tournament he wanted to organize early in 1967. He had eight professionals set to go but no place to host the tournament and no prize money to offer. Freddie, nobody wants us, Kramer said. Madison Square Garden does not want us. White Plains does not want us. I could not believe that a great and famous player like Jack Kramer was coming to me, an unknown immigrant, to ask if I would be interested in promoting the tournament. I thought about it for a little less than a minute, knew instantly that we could accommodate nearly four thousand people in the armory, and determined that I would make it happen. A few days later, I received a letter of confirmation from his manager, Mr. Wills. The players he was proposing were the most famous names in the game. We just needed to come up with the prize money. Since we did not have anyone who could sponsor us, I put up five thousand dollars myself and asked two of my friendsLieberman, vice president of a gas company, and Zdenek Capek, the engineer friend who helped me design the roll-up mats for the armoryto invest five thousand dollars each. I can still name the singles draw from the top down: Rod Laver, Fred Stolle, Dennis Ralston, Butch Buchholz, Pancho Gonzalez, Pierre Barthes, Mike Davis, Andres Gimeno, Pancho Segura, and Cliff Drysdale. No one was willing to underwrite the event.
Author : Kati Marton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416586135
Relates the author's eyewitness account of her parents' arrests in Cold War Budapest, Hungary, and the terrible separation that followed, drawing on secret police files to reveal how her family was betrayed by friends and colleagues.
Author : Andrew Melnyk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465320506
My Grandfather’s Mill – Journey to Freedom is a true story — part history, part biography. It focuses on two families and their two infant children, Andrew and Chrystyna, born in Western Ukraine at the height of the Second World War. Their parents fought for Ukrainian independence throughout the years of Polish occupation, the invasion of Stalin’s Bolshevik forces and during the years of Hitler’s Nazi terror. Members of both their families were murdered by one or another of the occupying armies. Family accounts of concentration camps, refugee camps; of war crimes, brutality and uncertainty, of hope, courage and unexpected generosity are interwoven with the historical realities of the time. They were among the lucky ones who found freedom in North America. Half a century after they left their homeland, Andrew and Chrystyna returned. They discovered the villages of their birth, found family members they didn’t know existed, experienced their culture fi rst-hand and fi nally began to make sense of their place in history. This book is written for future generations, for all those who have lived in two very different worlds, for victims of wars, present day refugees, immigrants and especially for those who were born and have always lived in a free country and never experienced the horrors of war.
Author : John Irving
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345417985
“Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.”—Time “Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.”—Saturday Review It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old. “Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey . . . and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot rod through Mr. Irving's book . . . tossing flowers, stealing salt shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives.”—The New York Times
Author : Gerti Baldwin
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783991312741
Gerti Baldwin's story is one of childhood poverty in a decrepit Viennese slum during the war years, to a life interspersed with family entanglements, separation, happier times with foster parents and her determination to succeed. Torn between her father and mother, in all her heartache and disappointment she learns the truth about them and the hardships her mother and her siblings had to endure. Despite a serious heart defect, she finds ways to cope, turning her attention to sport especially judo, joining a club and entering championships. In between Gerti is stalked and threatened with murder, but eventually finds peace and tranquillity making her home in Wales where she works as a social worker until retirement.
Author : Victoria Kamhi de Rodrigo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015023385282
Composer Joaquín Rodrigo's music is an homage to the rich and varied cultures of Spain. His unique creations draw from influences that range from the ancient Roman conquerors of Iberia to modern Spanish poets and writers. Since 1933 the blind composer was assisted and inspired by his talented wife, pianist Victoria Kamhi, his most important collaborator and his life's partner. This book is the story of a loving marriage and a professional struggle that led to international acclaim. After the years of exile and deprivation during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Rodrigo's work began to gain attention and praise from the musical world. Active as critic and academic, Rodrigo has also received commissions from some of the most distinguished soloists of our era.
Author : Sarah Wildman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101616161
One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory. Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel. Her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria. Valy’s name wasn’t unknown to her—Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. “She was your grandfather’s true love,” her grandmother said at the time, and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy’s story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom. Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. On in the course of discovering Valy’s ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather’s triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life and in the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.
Author : Stephen Brown,John F. Sherry Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317453598
A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con.