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Wildflowers of Terezin

Author : Robert Elmer
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2010-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781426715303
Pages : 247 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (37 downloads)

Download Wildflowers of Terezin in PDF Full Online Free by Robert Elmer and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger. A Danish Lutheran pastor’s complacent faith is stretched to the breaking point during World War II when he meets a young Jewish nurse Hanne Abrahamsen and becomes deeply involved in Resistance efforts to save Denmark’s Jews from the Nazi prison camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia—also known as Theresienstadt. Challenged by his evangelical brother and swayed by his own attraction to Hanne, Pastor Steffen abandons his formerly quiet, uninvolved life and hesitantly volunteers to help smuggle Denmark’s Jews out of the country before a Nazi roundup. Steffen finds that helping his Jewish neighbors is the most decent, spiritual thing he has ever done. As he actually does God’s work, rather than just talking about it, Steffen’s faith deepens and he takes greater risks in his sermons. When things go terribly wrong and Hanne is sent to Terezin, Steffen finds his heart fully engaged. He undertakes protests and rescues that are more and more dangerous, never imagining where it will lead him, or the ultimate cost of his decision to get directly involved.

Wildflowers of Terezin

Author : Robert Elmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-01
ISBN 10 : 9781682998953
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (959 downloads)

Download Wildflowers of Terezin in PDF Full Online Free by Robert Elmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger. A Danish Lutheran pastor's complacent faith is stretched to the breaking point during World War II when he meets a young Jewish nurse Hanne Abrahamsen and becomes deeply involved in Resistance efforts to save Denmark's Jews from the Nazi prison camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia—also known as Theresienstadt. Challenged by his evangelical brother and swayed by his own attraction to Hanne, Pastor Steffen abandons his formerly quiet, uninvolved life and hesitantly volunteers to help smuggle Denmark's Jews out of the country before a Nazi roundup. Steffen finds that helping his Jewish neighbors is the most decent, spiritual thing he has ever done. As he actually does God's work, rather than just talking about it, Steffen's faith deepens and he takes greater risks in his sermons. When things go terribly wrong and Hanne is sent to Terezin, Steffen finds his heart fully engaged. He undertakes protests and rescues that are more and more dangerous, never imagining where it will lead him, or the ultimate cost of his decision to get directly involved.

Highland Blessings

Author : Jennifer Hudson Taylor
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781426702266
Pages : 66 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (264 downloads)

Download Highland Blessings in PDF Full Online Free by Jennifer Hudson Taylor and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highland warrior Bryce MacPhearson kidnaps Akira MacKenzie on her wedding day to honor a promise he made to his dying father. When he forces Akira to wed him, hoping to end a half-century-old feud between their clans, she struggles to overcome her anger and resentment. Yet her strength in the Lord becomes a witness to Bryce. But there is a traitor in their midst...and murder is the ultimate weapon.

The Writers Directory

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822037943214
Pages : 570 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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So Luminous the Wildflowers

Author : Paul Suntup
Publisher :
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015061101393
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download So Luminous the Wildflowers in PDF Full Online Free by Paul Suntup and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This anthology features works by Jack Foley, Amy Gerstler, Christopher Buckley, Philip Levine, Devorah Major, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many many others. "We bring together in this volume 187 poets, including some of California's newer, promising poets as well as those who are established and widely published...We merely wished to showcase, in all their varietal splendor, some of the poetic riches of California. It is 100% Californian. And it is 24 karat gold"--Michael Paul.

The Artists of Terezin

Author : Gerald Green
Publisher : Dutton Books
Release Date : 1969
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015006339629
Pages : 222 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The Artists of Terezin in PDF Full Online Free by Gerald Green and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut.

Czech and Slovak Cinema

Author : Peter Hames
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-09
ISBN 10 : 9780748686834
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (835 downloads)

Download Czech and Slovak Cinema in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Hames and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period.

The overgrown path

Author : Sheila Moody
Publisher : Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 1843863391
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (863 downloads)

Download The overgrown path in PDF Full Online Free by Sheila Moody and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six students, friends from childhood, grow up in Prague before the Second World War. Their lives are set against the cataclysmic events in Czechoslovakia, from its dismemberment by the Nazis in 1938, through the war, the Communist coup d'etat in 1948, and all the way to the restoration of democracy in 1989. Two of them leave for England and enlist in the Royal Air Force. Another is deported to Terezin, a place designated by the Nazis as 'a model town for Jews' where, under awful circumstances, she gives birth to a child. Those who survive the war wrestle with careers, love affairs and marriages as they struggle to retrieve lost relationships."

The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films

Author : Sarka Sladovnikova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9783838211961
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (96 downloads)

Download The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films in PDF Full Online Free by Sarka Sladovnikova and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Šárka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films and the relevant literary pretexts. While she charts the social and cultural framework in which the films were made and how this framework changed, she also focuses on the cinematic language, the composition of and narration in each film (e.g., the depiction of the war and the Shoah as a narratively closed versus a narratively open event), genre aspects of the films (e.g., the use of comedy and humor), convention and innovation in presenting motifs and characters (the division of gender roles, the character of the “good German”). Particular attention is paid to the portrayal of stereotypes and countertypes in the films, where already well-known images, situations, and backdrops are repeated and which meet viewers’ expectations or, in contrast, which form countertypes and countersituations that go against the grain. Many of the films analyzed are adaptations of literary works. Therefore, this book is also a contribution to the rapidly developing field of adaptation studies.

The Writing On The Wall

Author : Juliet Rieden
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Release Date : 2019-08-27
ISBN 10 : 9781760788025
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (23 downloads)

Download The Writing On The Wall in PDF Full Online Free by Juliet Rieden and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Memoirs such as this will ensure we do not lose the struggle against "forgetting" - that sly accomplice of tyranny' Magda Szubanski In 1939, as Hitler's troops march on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s always sensing that her family was different in some way. She longed to have relatives and knew precious little about her Czech father's childhood as a refugee. On the night before Juliet's father died, in 2006, Juliet's father suddenly looked up and said: 'The plane is in the hangar.' In the years after his death, Juliet comes to truly understand the significance of these words. On a trip to Prague she is shocked to see the Rieden name written many times over on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue memorial. These names become the catalyst for a life-changing journey that uncovers a personal Holocaust tragedy of epic proportions. Juliet traces the grim fate of her father's cousins, aunts and uncles on visits to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps and learns about the extremes of cruelty, courage and kindness. Then in a locked box in Britain's National Archives, she discovers a stash of documents including letters from her father that reveal intimate details of his struggle. Meticulously researched and beautifully told, this is the moving story of a woman's quest to piece together the hidden parts of her father's life and the unimaginable losses he was determined to protect his children from. PRAISE FOR THE WRITING ON THE WALL 'Rieden sets out to chart her story with a journalist's rigour: facts, timelines, archival material. She does it brilliantly. But it is the small, powerful resonant moments within a harrowing arc that bring her story alive.' The Australian

Postcards from Absurdistan

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9780691239514
Pages : 752 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (517 downloads)

Download Postcards from Absurdistan in PDF Full Online Free by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague’s twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some “end of history,” whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times. In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers—poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians—caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee—not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way and Václav Havel’s greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Over and over, Prague exposes modernity’s dreamworlds of progress as confections of kitsch. In a time when democracy is once again under global assault, Postcards from Absurdistan is an unforgettable portrait of a city that illuminates the predicaments of the modern world.

Blood Flower

Author : Pamela Uschuk
Publisher : Wings Press
Release Date : 2015-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781609404123
Pages : 126 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (122 downloads)

Download Blood Flower in PDF Full Online Free by Pamela Uschuk and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk's earlier poems. It continues themes in Uschuk's American Book Award winner, Crazy Love. The poems braid the startling, sometimes brutal stories of her Russian/Czech immigrant family during the McCarthy Era in a conservative Michigan farming community with stories of courageous individuals, especially women, who persevere to love, despite it all. Uschuk's step-grandfather, father, brother, nephews, and first husband all suffered severe PTSD as combat veterans who returned home from wars that ravished not only their lives, but the lives of the women and children closest to them. This is the history not just of one family but of immigrants in this nation. These poems, although set in landscapes across the globe, commonly draw their imagery and healing from the natural world, the wild world, and the integrity of the human heart.

Choice

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1969
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106020976269
Pages : 1248 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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University Over the Abyss

Author : Elena Makarova
Publisher :
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015061454685
Pages : 568 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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A Delayed Life

Author : Dita Kraus
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2020-02-06
ISBN 10 : 9781473575240
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (249 downloads)

Download A Delayed Life in PDF Full Online Free by Dita Kraus and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezín, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation. Dita writes unflinchingly about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle past the guards. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust – to the life she rebuilt after the war: her marriage to fellow survivor Otto B Kraus, a new life in Israel and the happiness and heartbreaks of motherhood. Part of Dita's story was told in fictional form in the Sunday Times bestseller The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe. Her memoir tells the full story in her own words.

The Video Source Book

Author : Julia C. Furtaw
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Release Date : 1994-03
ISBN 10 : 0810378604
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (378 downloads)

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Dark Alchemy

Author : Peter Hames
Publisher : Praeger
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105012439365
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Dark Alchemy in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Hames and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that brought frequent tensions with the authorities in the normalization years following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svankmajer's formative influences have been the pre-war surrealists, the Prague of Rudolf II, experimental theatre, folk puppetry and, above all, the political traumas of the past 50 years. Like his contemporaries--including playwright president Vaclav Havel, and, in exile, novelist Milan Kundera and filmmaker Milos Forman--Svankmajer's dominant life experiences have been the realities of the Stalinist system, both the explicit state terror of the 1950s and the Brezhnevist neo-Stalinism of the 1970s and the 1980s. After training in puppetry and working in the Prague theatre, he made his first film in 1964. He directed a number of important films in the 1960s, including the live-action and Kafkaesque Byt (The Flat, 1968) and Zahrada (The Garden, 1968) and consolidated his international reputation with Moznosti dialogu (Dimensions of Dialogue) in 1982. Since then, he has continued his highly visual and poetic approach in two feature-length films, Neco z Alenky (Alice, 1987) and Lekce Faust (Faust, 1994). As a filmmaker, Svankmajer is constantly exploring and analyzing his concern with power, fear and anxiety, confrontation and destruction, magic, the irrational and the absurd, and displays a bleak outlook on the possibilities for dialogue. In challenging accepted narrative, the bourgeoisie of realism (nezval), and the thematic and formal conventions of the mainstream media, Svankmajer's work is startlingly dynamic, subversive, and confrontational.