Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis put measures into place: remove the Jews, bring in German settlers, and racially classify the rest of the population in order to separate Poles from ethnic Germans. Gerhard Wolf reveals an astonishing reality in which the plan met with massive resistance from various Nazi occupation institutions, especially when it came to deeming a majority of Polish citizens as «racially unfit.» ...
This story is a microcosm of millions of others, a love story of two people seeking to be reunited after years of separation. My mother's death. The sudden discovery of family papers. My father's unfinished manuscript. Her account of a perilous escape from our native Sudetenland. My father's writings chronicle the rising specter of nationalism. How his libertarian views became disillusioned with ties of other family members to Be ...
Der Winter 1595 ist kalt, das merkt auch die Theatergruppe um William Shakespeare. Halbseidenes Gesindel sind diese Schauspieler, immer verfolgt von Obrigkeit und Geistlichkeit. Aber die Konigin liebt die Buhne. Zur Hochzeit einer hohen Adeligen soll das Ensemble eine neue Komodie auf die Buhne bringen:"Der Sommernachtstraum". Auch Shakespeares junger Bruder Richard spielt mit, dabei sind sich die beiden gar nicht grun. Dann geschieht eine Katas ...
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital. As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC’s an ...
This is the extraordinary story of the author’s twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps. His father survived the war but died when the author was a teenager, leaving him only with the knowledge that he had buried coins somewhere in Poland, and no information about his family. During his quest, Biederman uncovers many inter ...
Describes in historic detail life as a Holocaust survivor in Soviet-occupied Hungary Describes life in post WWII Germany from the vantage of a Holocaust survivor Describes the opportunities of life in America as a new immigrant Offers a vivid first-hand account in the context of both history and society Is in the truest sense, a love story that had impossible odds ...
Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a su ...
