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pro vyhledávání: '"BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival"'
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Zvi Preigerzon, Alex Lahav
Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject. It was one of the first eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulags. Even af
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Yelena Lembersky
A 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads Selection'Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is more ambitious than the average memoir. It's informed by Galina's and her parents'lessons on the value of art and culture and enriched by Alëna's beautifully constructed ima
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Akira Kitade, Donna Ratajczak
Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the refugees been rescued by the diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by
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Anne Groschler, Hartmut Peters
In this vivid memoir originally published in German, Anne Groschler (1888-1982) recounts her 1944 escape from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Mandatory Palestine via “Transport 222”, an exchange transport of 222 Jews for “Aryan'prisoner
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Steve Hochstadt
Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin. They were among a handful of couples who were married in Theresienstadt, and are possibly the only pair who lived to describe their wedding. They survived Auschwitz, and
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Joan Nockels Wilson
Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me recounts in lyric movements a sister's journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to g
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Annette Aronowicz
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up—from Poland to Belgium and from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. The book also moves between past
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John Volanthen
READ ABOUT THE HEROIC RESCUE, AS SEEN IN RON HOWARD'S THIRTEEN LIVES, FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE SEARCH. ‘A profound and thrilling read.'—COLIN FARRELL ‘Riveting...a powerful story written by a hero who lived it.'—RON HOWARD, Oscar-w
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Andrei Kushnir
Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the Soviet regime in his homeland. His father fought in the Ukrainian National Army against the Russian B
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Ed Rosenthal
A poet's hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills. Rosenthal's shocking ordeal was covered on The Discovery Channel and on'Fight to Survive'with Bear Grylls.A real estate broker in Downtown L