City of Life, City of Death

City of Life, City of Death
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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9780870817885
ISBN-13 : 0870817884
Rating : 4/5 (884 Downloads)

Book Synopsis City of Life, City of Death by : Max Michelson

Download or read book City of Life, City of Death written by Max Michelson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family; it is the speech of their muted voices and a thank you for their love. Although badly scarred by his experiences, like many other survivors he was able to rebuild his life and gain a new sense of what it means to be alive. His experiences will be of interest to scholars of both the Holocaust and Eastern European history, as well as the general reader.


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