Search Results - "Family"

Becoming my mother's daughter a story of survival and renewal / by Gottlieb, Erika

Subjects: “…Gottlieb, Erika Family.…”
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Will to live one family's story of surviving the Holocaust / by Starkopf, Adam

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Bo, Jenny and I surviving the Holocaust in Britain : a family memoir / by Herrmann, Huguette

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Dear sister the Civil War letters of the Brothers Gould /

Subjects: “…Gould family Correspondence.…”
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Spider eaters a memoir / by Yang, Rae

Subjects: “…Yang family.…”
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A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah / by Herskovits-Gutmann, Ruth, 1928-

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A quiet corner of the war : the Civil War letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863 / by Claflin, Gilbert

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The old land and the new the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's /

“…Journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's.…”
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War and home the Civil War encounter / by Paludan, Phillip Shaw, 1938-2007

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Last to leave the field the life and letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry / by Hayward, Ambrose Henry, 1840-1864

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Nightmare's fairy tale a young refugee's home fronts, 1938-1948 / by Korman, Gerd

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Like grass before the scythe the life and death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry / by Remmel, William

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Numbered days diaries and the Holocaust / by Garbarini, Alexandra, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Historical and theoretical considerations -- Historians and Martyrs -- News readers -- Family correspondents -- Reluctant messengers -- A stone under history's wheel.…”
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Inheriting the Holocaust a second-generation memoir / by Fass, Paula S.

Table of Contents: “…Going to Poland: May 2000 -- I never had grandparents -- One uncle -- The complexity of aunts -- First families -- My parents -- My mother/myself.…”
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The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler Lwow, Poland, 1942-1944 / by Kessler, Edmund, d. 1985

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Kessler family of Lwow -- Autobiographical statement -- Life in America -- Our people -- Terror in Lwow -- Life in the camps -- Reflections -- Salvation -- Our bunker in Lwow -- Lusia's letter -- Epilogue -- The search -- Afterword -- Biographical statements -- Appendix.…”
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Broken Records / by Žabić, Snežana, 1974-

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Facing racial revolution eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection /

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a slavemaster -- The Ogé Insurrection -- The first days of the slave insurrection -- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée -- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791 -- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital -- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792 -- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793 -- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection -- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -- A colonist at sea, 1793 -- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection -- A colonist among the Spanish and the British -- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -- A family reunion and a religious conversion -- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français -- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue -- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804 -- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.…”
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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation / by Porter, Edgar A., Porter, Ran Ying

Table of Contents: “…Oita Men Troop to War; "Leaving My Hometown"; A Buddhist Priest's Gift for Hitler; Oita Soldiers; On to Nanjing; Nanjing Legacy and the Pride of Oita; Our Chinese Family Meets the 47th; Securing Victory and Moving On; 4. …”
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The world of a tiny insect : a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath / by Zhang, Daye, 1854-

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Holocaust odysseys the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and their flight through France and Italy / by Zuccotti, Susan, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish immigrants and political refugees in France, 1933-1939 : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Lya Haberman, William Blye, and Charles Roman -- Jewish immigrants and political refugees in Belgium and Luxembourg before the war : Menahem Marienberg, Miriam Löwenwirth, Sigi Hart, Boris Carmeli, and Walter Marx -- Flight to southern France, May and June 1940 : Sigi Hart, Menahem Marienberg, Boris Carmeli, Miriam Löwenwirth, Lya Haberman, and Walter Marx -- Jewish refugees in the unoccupied zone, May 1940-August 1942 : Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, Menahem Marienberg, Walter Marx, Miriam Löwenwirth, and Boris Carmeli -- Arrests in the occupied zone, 1941-1942 : Jacques and Paulette Samson -- Arrests in the unoccupied zone, August 1942 : William Blye, Charles Roman, and Menahem Marienberg -- Narrow escapes and subsequent arrests in the unoccupied zone, August-November 1942 : Miriam Löwenwirth, Boris Carmeli, Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, and Walter Marx -- Saint-Martin-Vésubie, November 1942-September 1943 -- Crossing the Alps after September 8, 1943 -- Those who stayed behind -- The first week in Italy, September 11-17, 1943 -- The roundup in Valdieri and Borgo San Dalmazzo, September 18, 1943 -- Deportation from Borgo San Dalmazzo : the Marx and Marienberg families and Boris Carmeli -- Hiding in the province of Cuneo : William Blye, Charles Roman, Walter Marx, and Menahem Marienberg -- Resistance : Walter Marx and William Blye -- Traveling to and hiding in Florence, September and October 1943 : Miriam Löwenwirth, Sigi Hart, and Lya Haberman -- Arrests and narrow escapes in Florence, November 1943 : Sigi Hart, Miriam Löwenwirth, and Lya Haberman -- Traveling to and hiding in Rome, January-June 1944 : Charles Roman and Jacques Samson -- Auschwitz : Sigi Hart and Boris Carmeli -- After the war : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Charles Roman, Lya Haberman, and Miriam Löwenwirth -- After the war : William Blye, Walter Marx, Menahem Marienberg, Sigi Hart, and Boris Carmeli -- Journeys back.…”
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