When Living Was A Labor Camp

Author : Diana Garc’a
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816520437

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When Living was a Labor Camp by Diana Garc’a Pdf

"I write what I eat and smell,"says Diana Garc’a, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, Garc’a's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows. Bold, political, and familial, Garc’a's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and prideÑeach line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Referencepoint Press Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Concentration camp inmates
ISBN : 1601525109

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Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp by Don Nardo Pdf

Much of what is known about people's everyday lives in times past comes from artifacts but also from diaries, letters, and other writings. Many important details of life during the Civil War, for instance, can be found in the diaries of women who carried on while their men were at war. In the Living History series, firsthand accounts such as these are combined with thoughtful narrative to offer a rich and vivid portrait of daily life in various times and places in history. A visual chronology, sidebars that feature quotes from people of the period and from historians, selected vocabulary words, source notes, a bibliography for further research, and an index provide additional tools for student researchers Book jacket.

Author : Mark Torres
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147842

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Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood by Mark Torres Pdf

During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent housing flocked to Eastern Long Island, where they were often cheated out of pay and housed in deadly slum-like conditions. Preyed on by corrupt camp operators and entrapped in a feudal system that left them mired in debt, laborers struggled and, in some cases, perished in the shadow of New York's affluence. Author Mark A. Torres reveals the dreadful history of Long Island's migrant labor camps from their inception to their peak in 1960 and their steady decline in the following decades.

Author : Sarah Helm
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307278715

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Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm Pdf

Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler—prime architect of the Holocaust—designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small number of the prisoners were Jewish. Ravensbrück was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes, and aristocrats—even the sister of New York’s Mayor LaGuardia. Over six years the prisoners endured forced labor, torture, starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became an extermination camp. Estimates of the final death toll have ranged from 30,000 to 90,000. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain. Now, using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War and interviews with survivors who have never talked before, Sarah Helm takes us into the heart of the camp. The result is a landmark achievement that weaves together many accounts, following figures on both sides of the prisoner/guard divide. Chilling, compelling, and deeply necessary, Ravensbrück is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nazi history.

Author : John K. Stutterheim
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823250134

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The Diary of Prisoner 17326 by John K. Stutterheim Pdf

A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese. As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, but their colonial idyll ended when the Japanese invaded in 1942, when John was fourteen. With the surrender of Java, John’s father was taken prisoner. Soon thereafter, John, his younger brother, and his mother were imprisoned. A year later he and his brother were moved to a forced labor camp for boys, where disease, starvation, and the constant threat of imminent death took their toll. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his mattress. His memories now offer a unique perspective on an often-overlooked episode of World War II. What emerges is a compelling story of a young man caught up in the machinations of a global war—struggling to survive while caring for his gravely ill brother.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : IND:30000091272561

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U.S.S.R. Labor Camps by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Pdf

Author : Hallie Murray,Ann Byers
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766098374

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Living and Dying in Nazi Concentration Camps by Hallie Murray,Ann Byers Pdf

Of the estimated six million Jews who died during the Holocaust, it is believed that at least three million died in work camps, where Jews were forced on pain of death to work on behalf the German military or perform backbreaking labor, and death camps like Auschwitz and Dachau. Originally built as prisons for Adolf Hitler's political opponents, these camps became the last stop for those deemed unacceptable under the Nazi regime, whether because of their race, religion, sexuality, or other attribute. Readers will learn of the horrors of the gas chambers, which could kill hundreds at once, the countless crematoria for burning dead bodies, and the horrific experiments of the infamous Joseph Mengele. Survivors' accounts of these atrocities will spur student discussion of trauma and PTSD, while tales of resistance attempts will engender conversation about courageous action in the face of almost certain death.

Author : Felicja Karay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056950309

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Hasag-Leipzig Slave Labour Camp for Women by Felicja Karay Pdf

Here for the first time in the historiography of the Holocaust is the story of an international forced labour camp for women, the largest of the auxiliary women's camps attached to KZ Buchenwald in Germany. It was the place where the Jewish prisoners sang the satiric camp 'anthem': "Hasag is our father, the best father there is! / He promises us - long years of happiness! / In Leipzig - a paradise on earth." Was Hasag-Leipzig really a 'paradise' compared to other Nazi installations, in terms of the treatment of prisoners and their living conditions? This study provides answers to this question as it depicts the camp for 5,500 from 18 countries, among them 1,200 Jewish prisoners brought there from Poland.Special attention is paid here to the cultural activities, adding a refreshing new dimension to the scholarly work, bringing the reader closer to the alien, unfamiliar world known as the Hasag-Leipzig Women's Camp.

Author : Pearl G. Spindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Labor camps
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013856525

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Housing for Migrant Agricultural Workers, Labor Camp Standards by Pearl G. Spindler Pdf

Author : Cecylia Ziobro Thibault
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938908422

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Trapped in a Nightmare by Cecylia Ziobro Thibault Pdf

So many memories I would like to forget. But they are vividly etched in my mind, and impossible to erase. During World War II, a young Polish American girl named Cecylia was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. After more than sixty years, with the sincere encouragement from her friends and family, she has decided to share her extraordinary account. Hers is a story that centers around a little-known aspect of the war, and it is told here from a fresh perspective, that of a young girl facing unimaginable horror and unexpected hope as a prisoner in a Nazi labor camp. This book is a must-read. We will all face adversity in life, and this book inspires us to live our lives and face our problems with strength and dignity. When you read this book, you will be inspired to live your life bravely like Cecylia did under the worst of circumstances. Everyone should read this book it will help you live a better life. Elizabeth Cohen, MPH, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Delaware Advisory Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
ISBN : UIUC:30112083301314

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The Working and Living Conditions of Mushroom Workers by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Delaware Advisory Committee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : UOM:39015077924689

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U.S.S.R. Labor Camps by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045473613

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U.S.S.R. Labor Camps by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : G. Naufal,I. Genc
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137117854

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Expats and the Labor Force by G. Naufal,I. Genc Pdf

An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances. The GCC countries have the highest share of foreign labor in the world. The authors examine the multidimensional aspects of such a large foreign population.

Author : Dalia Ofer,Lenore J. Weitzman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300080808

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Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer,Lenore J. Weitzman Pdf

Introduction : the role of gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer -- Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish labor bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock -- The Grodno Ghetto and its underground : a personal narrative / Liza Chapnik -- The key game / Ida Fink -- 5050