[PDF] Under The Yellow And Red Stars eBook

Author : Alex Levin
Publisher : Azrieli Series of Holocaust Su
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781897470077

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Under the Yellow & Red Stars is the remarkable story of a Jewish boy swept up by the horrors of the World War II.

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File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2009
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Under the Yellow & Red Stars is a remarkable story of survival, coming of age and homecoming after years as a stranger in a strange land. Alex Levin was only ten years old when he ran deep into the forest after the Germans invaded his hometown of Rokitno and only twelve when he emerged from hiding to find that he had neither parents nor a community to return to. A harrowing tale of escape, endurance and exceptional emotional resilience, Levin's story also draws us into his later life as an officer and eventual outcast in the USSR, and as an immigrant who successfully built a new life in Canada. This poetically written memoir is imbued with loss and pain, but also with the optimistic spirit of a boy determined to survive.

Author : Gwen C. Katz
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062642766

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A suspenseful historical YA debut inspired by the true story of an all-female bomber unit in Russia during World War II. World War II has erupted in Valka’s homeland of Russia, and Valka is determined to help the effort. She’s a pilot—and a good one—so she eagerly joins an all-female bomber regiment. Flying has always meant freedom and exhilaration for Valka, but dropping bombs on German targets is something else entirely. The raids are dangerous, but as Valka watches her fellow pilots putting everything on the line in the face of treachery, she learns the true meaning of bravery. As the war intensifies, though, and those around her fall, Valka must decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she once called home. Inspired by the true story of a famous all-female Russian bomber regiment, Gwen C. Katz weaves a tale of strength and sacrifice, of learning to fight for yourself, and of the perils of a world at war.

Author : Jelena Subotić
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501742418

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Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.

Author : Davide Morosinotto
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1984893327

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This middle grade mystery adventure, told in a unique format including diary entries, maps and photos, takes readers along on the harrowing journeys of two twelve-year-old siblings, separated just before the Nazi siege of their city and each desperate to reunite with one another. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible conflict rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the destruction in an effort to be reunited. Their chances are slim, but they never lose hope. In an original format--using the kids' diary entries, with historical photos, maps, and drawings throughout, this fictionalized account of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, this heart-stopping story of danger, courage and bravery emphasizes the power of truth and what it means to be a hero.

Author : Toshi Yoshihara
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781591149798

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Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

Author : Tessa Bridal
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Montevideo (Uruguay)
ISBN : 9781571310231

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Magda, a young woman of privilege, is drawn into unexpected danger when she joins the underground struggle against the government of Uruguay.