City Of Life, City Of Death: Memories Of Riga - Couverture souple

Michelson, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870817884 ISBN 13 : 9780870817885

Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2004

Synopsis

City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust.Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family; it is the speech of their muted voices and a thank you for their love. Although badly scarred by his experiences, like many other survivors he was able to rebuild his life and gain a new sense of what it means to be alive. His experiences will be of interest to scholars of both the Holocaust and Eastern European history, as well as the general reader.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Max Michelson, a retired engineer, is married and lives in Framingham, Massachusetts. With his wife Julia, he has raised two sons, and Michelson regards his three grandchildren as the best thing that has ever happened to him.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Colorado
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870817884
• ISBN 13: 9780870817885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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