Evitchka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evitchka write by Lawrence P Levitt. This book was released on 2024-05-05. Evitchka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenné, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to the luck, determination, and resilience of her parents and the bravery of a young Catholic couple. Her story crosses continents and spans decades, culminating in the unlikely chance to repay an unpayable debt.
Preoccupied with My Father
Preoccupied with My Father - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preoccupied with My Father write by Simon Schneiderman. This book was released on 2007. Preoccupied with My Father available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A combination of poetry and expressionistic paintings portray the heartbreaking and hard-fought life as well as the burial rituals after the death of Yoel Schneiderman in this innovative biography. Following his narrow escape from the Holocaust, Yoel's life changed inextricably. A far cry from the young, vibrant man who grew up in Warsaw, Yoel became hopeless and helplessly destructive if even the smallest detail of his life was out of place. Yet Yoel kept his passion for learning and exploring the unknown to his dying day.
Walking the Bowl
Walking the Bowl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking the Bowl write by Chris Lockhart. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Walking the Bowl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities. When the dead body of a ten-year-old boy is discovered under a heap of garbage in Lusaka’s largest landfill, a murder investigation quickly heats up due to the influence of the victim’s mother and her far-reaching political connections. The children’s lives become more closely intertwined as each child engages in a desperate bid for survival against forces they could never have imagined. Gripping and fast-paced, the book exposes the perilous aspects of street life through the eyes of the children who survive, endure and dream there, and what emerges is an ultimately hopeful story about human kindness and how one small good deed, passed on to others, can make a difference in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
By Chance Alone
By Chance Alone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook By Chance Alone write by Max Eisen. This book was released on 2020-01-07. By Chance Alone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.
The Aaronsohn Saga
The Aaronsohn Saga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aaronsohn Saga write by Shmuel Katz. This book was released on 2007. The Aaronsohn Saga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebrated botanist, who had won world fame as the discoverer of 'wild wheat, ' Aaron Aaronsohn (1876 1919) created the first Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station in Palestine then under Turkish rule in 1910. His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right. Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine. Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read.
