Soaring Underground

Author : Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith
Publisher : Howells House
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0929590155

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Soaring Underground by Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith Pdf

Orbach's memoir is a stylish and inspiring account of his life in Berlin's underworld of "divers" where young Jews survived by street smarts and an indomitable spirit which he delicately portrays. After his father is arrested and his mother and sister go into hiding, the young man is left to his own devices finding company among other survivors who outwit the Nazis in surreal adventures. Finally, betrayed by an informer, Orbach is sent to Auschwitz. But, as he says himself, he has left that part of his journey for others to tell, concentrating instead on the humanity and faith which he found on Berlin's streets. Distributed by Paul and Company. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard N. Lutjens, Jr.
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785334559

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Submerged on the Surface by Richard N. Lutjens, Jr. Pdf

Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with survivors, this book reconstructs the daily lives of Jews who stayed in Berlin during the war years. Contrary to the received wisdom that “hidden” Jews stayed in attics and cellars and had minimal contact with the outside world, the author reveals a cohort of remarkable individuals who were constantly on the move and actively fought to ensure their own survival.

Author : Tim Cole,Simone Gigliotti
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780810142749

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Lessons and Legacies XIV by Tim Cole,Simone Gigliotti Pdf

The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age challenges a number of key themes in Holocaust studies with new research. Essays in the section “Tropes Reconsidered” reevaluate foundational concepts such as Primo Levi’s gray zone and idea of the muselmann. The chapters in “Survival Strategies and Obstructions” use digital methodologies to examine mobility and space and their relationship to hiding, resistance, and emigration. Contributors to the final section, “Digital Methods, Digital Memory,” offer critical reflections on the utility of digital methods in scholarly, pedagogic, and public engagement with the Holocaust. Although the chapters differ markedly in their embrace or eschewal of digital methods, they share several themes: a preoccupation with the experiences of persecution, escape, and resistance at different scales (individual, group, and systemic); methodological innovation through the adoption and tracking of micro- and mezzohistories of movement and displacement; varied approaches to the practice of Saul Friedländer’s “integrated history”; the mainstreaming of oral history; and the robust application of micro- and macrolevel approaches to the geographies of the Holocaust. Taken together, these chapters incorporate gender analysis, spatial thinking, and victim agency into Holocaust studies. In so doing, they move beyond existing notions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to portray the Holocaust as a complex and multilayered event.

Author : Frank Bajohr,Andrea Löw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137569844

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The Holocaust and European Societies by Frank Bajohr,Andrea Löw Pdf

This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent’s Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg ́s category of the ‘bystander’. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.

Author : Susanna Schrafstetter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253064059

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Flight and Concealment by Susanna Schrafstetter Pdf

Between ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews tried to escape Nazi genocide by going into hiding. With the help of Jewish and non-Jewish relatives, friends, or people completely unknown to them, these "U-boats," as they came to be known, dared to lead a life underground. Flight and Concealment brings to light their hidden stories. Deftly weaving together personal accounts with a broader comparative look at the experiences of Jews throughout Germany, historian Susanna Schrafstetter tells the story of the Jews in Munich and Upper Bavaria who fled deportation by going underground. Archival sources and interviews with survivors and with the Germans who aided or exploited them reveal a complex, often intimate story of hope, greed, and sometimes betrayal. Flight and Concealment shows the options and strategies for survival of those in hiding and their helpers, and discusses the ways in which some Germans enriched themselves at the expense of the refugees.

Author : Else Behrend-Rosenfeld,Siegfried Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781316519097

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Living in Two Worlds by Else Behrend-Rosenfeld,Siegfried Rosenfeld Pdf

The personal writings of a remarkable couple who lived parallel lives during the Second World War, surviving persecution and exile.

Author : Atina Grossmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400832743

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Jews, Germans, and Allies by Atina Grossmann Pdf

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived through postwar reconstruction to trace the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives. In gripping and unforgettable detail, Atina Grossmann describes Berlin in the days following Germany's surrender--the mass rape of German women by the Red Army, the liberated slave laborers and homecoming soldiers, returning political exiles, Jews emerging from hiding, and ethnic German refugees fleeing the East. She chronicles the hunger, disease, and homelessness, the fraternization with Allied occupiers, and the complexities of navigating a world where the commonplace mingled with the horrific. Grossmann untangles the stories of Jewish survivors inside and outside the displaced-persons camps of the American zone as they built families and reconstructed identities while awaiting emigration to Palestine or the United States. She examines how Germans and Jews interacted and competed for Allied favor, benefits, and victim status, and how they sought to restore normality--in work, in their relationships, and in their everyday encounters. Jews, Germans, and Allies shows how Jews were integral participants in postwar Germany and bridges the divide that still exists today between German history and Jewish studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Gliders (Aeronautics)
ISBN : UOM:39015029629782

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Soaring by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sebastian Huebel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487541248

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Fighter, Worker, and Family Man by Sebastian Huebel Pdf

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.

Author : Elizabeth J. Duncan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466858381

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Slated for Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan Pdf

When the body of well-liked and respectable Glenda Roberts is discovered at the bottom of a former slate mine, now a busy tourist attraction, pandemonium erupts in the North Wales town of Llanelen. Penny Brannigan finds herself drawn into the investigation when jars of her house-brand hand cream are found among counterfeit inventory Glenda and her sister were selling. Police are convinced that the mine operator whose asthmatic son suffered an almost-fatal attack due to the merchandise is responsible for Glenda's death. But Penny's not so sure. A visit to Glenda's mother only deepens her conviction that a hidden family secret is the real reason for the murder. Elizabeth J. Duncan's Slated for Death is a wonderful traditional mystery with snappy dialogue, lively characters and an enchanting setting.

Author : Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721730

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Young Lothar by Larry Orbach,Vivien Orbach-Smith Pdf

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing - fighting, literally, to stay alive. Outwardly he became a cagey amoral street thug, inwardly he was a sensitive, romantic boy, devoted son and increasingly religious Jew, clinging to his humanity. In the end, he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, on the last transport, in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is, in essence, a story of hope, even happiness, in the very heart of darkness.

Author : Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445671192

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Who Betrayed the Jews? by Agnes Grunwald-Spier Pdf

A groundbreaking account that examines the various ways Jews were betrayed by their fellow countrymen during the Holocaust.

Author : Daniel M. Ross
Publisher : Infinit
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manifest by Daniel M. Ross Pdf

DESTINY WAS CREATED EQUAL™ A worldwide energy race divides the nations of a war-ravaged globe by the greatest and the least. From the ruins of a forgotten empire, an under-qualified pair of adolescents set out to stake their claim upon Earth’s riches, convinced that destiny was created equal. “A POWERFUL READ…HE CREATED A SOUND MASTERPIECE.” —William Conrad, Author of Pushed to the Edge of Survival Unlock Infinit’s Cinematic Reading™ experience via the attached Screenplay Reading Guide.

Author : Robert Milliken
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458780171

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Mother of Rock by Robert Milliken Pdf

From the pubs of the Sydney Push to New York's legendary nightclubs, Lillian Roxon set the pace for an era that changed the world. Audacious, independent and fiercely intelligent, by eighteen she was cutting her writing teeth in the colourful world of Sydney tabloid journalism. She moved to New York in 1959, just in time for a cultural revolution that celebrated youth, sexual freedom, women's liberation - and rock and roll. Roxon quickly became the centre of a circle that included Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Jim Morrison and David Bowie. Linda Eastman confided in her about her first dates with Paul McCartney. Germaine Greer dedicated The Female Eunuch to her. Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, published in 1969, was the first book of its kind and established her as a leading chronicler of rock and youth culture. When she died suddenly in 1973, she left behind a collection of work full of the energy, irreverence and idealism of her times.

Author : Mary Kubica
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369746948

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She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling “absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G” (@hollylovesbooks1519) and “impossible to put down” (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse… A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin’s fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why? No one is safe. Meghan lets herself get close to Caitlin until she’s deeply entangled in the mystery surrounding her. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims... “A tense, compelling thriller with completely gasp-worthy twists.” —Nita Prose, #1 bestselling author of The Maid Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica: The Good Girl The Other Mrs. Local Woman Missing Just the Nicest Couple