Legacy Of A Lithuanian Grandmother

Author : Sheriene Saadati
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984549820
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy of a Lithuanian Grandmother written by Sheriene Saadati and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes to mind when you think of the word great grandma? Homemade treats? Someone that spoils you? As you will discover in this personal account, great grandma can mean all those things and moretough, hardworking, faithful, and highly protective. This book is about a great grandmothers lifefrom her birth in remote Vaznikiai Village in Lithuania in 1891 to traveling to Baltimore under an assumed name in 1912, to marrying another immigrant from a different social economic class in 1914, to the difficult circumstances that she and her siblings faced in building new lives in the United States. Her story is probably very similar to immigrants from her day but has somehow been forgotten. Through old letters, interviews, and genealogical documents, Iewa Dobaites or Grandma Evas life is recalled and her legacy to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren becomes clear.

Author : Silvia Foti
Publisher : Regnery History
ISBN 13 : 1684511089
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi's Granddaughter written by Silvia Foti and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.

Author : Sheriene Saadati
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669847748
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy of an Entrepreneurial Grandmother written by Sheriene Saadati and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in learning about the everyday lives of people who lived through the American Revolution, Civil War, Westward Expansion, World War II, and the modern era? Using letters, diaries, wills, and other primary documentation shared by my grandmother and her grandmother, this is a collection of family stories that span from 1700 to 1998 with the surnames of: Stone, Hankins, Campbell, Ford, and Simpson. Their stories invite you to view historical events in a more personal manner than a textbook and gives the reader a sense of connection to the past.

Author : Shivaun Woolfson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472527054
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania written by Shivaun Woolfson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war's end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from the camps and ghettos and a further 70 from the Partisans and Red Army. Against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal and a recent surge in anti-Semitic sentiment, Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania presents the history and experiences of a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in modern-day Vilnius. Using their stories and memories, their places of significance as well as biographical objects, Shivaun Woolfson considers the complexities surrounding Holocaust memory and legacy in a post-Soviet era Lithuania. The book also incorporates interdisciplinary elements of anthropology, psychology and ethnography, and is informed at its heart by a spiritual approach that marks it out from other more conventional historical treatments of the subject. Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania includes 20 images, comes with comprehensive online resources and weaves together story, artefact, monument and landscape to provide a multidimensional history of the Lithuanian Jewish experience during and after the Holocaust.

Author : Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134693516
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania written by Violeta Davoliūtė and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.

Author : Philip Reeder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527530205
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Freund’s Legacy of Ideas, Research and Teaching about the Holocaust written by Philip Reeder and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the Holocaust-related research of the historian, archeologist, and professor, Rabbi Richard A. Freund. Richard was a pioneering force in non-invasive archaeology, wherein geophysical techniques adapted from the oil and gas industry are used at Holocaust sites to collect data used in concert with testimony and archival research to write or rewrite the history of the Holocaust. The chapters’ authors span the breath of Holocaust studies and science, and include geophysicists who are experts in applying geophysical techniques in a historical context, geographers skilled in mapping and spatial analysis, filmmakers and film students, archaeologists that focus on the Holocaust, and academics specializing in Judaic studies, Jewish life and the Holocaust. It is comprehensive but non-technical and is a resource for anyone interested in melding science with history and uncovering the often lost or hidden aspects of the Holocaust.

Author : Aušra Paulauskienė
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022663
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost and Found written by Aušra Paulauskienė and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ausra Paulauskiene's book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect. For the first time, Abraham Cahan's autobiography The Education of Abraham Cahan and Ezra Brudno's autobiographical novel The Fugitive receive an extensive coverage, while Goldie Stone's My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach's That Man Donaleitis (sic) receive their first scholarly consideration ever. The author argues that misrepresentations, misattributions and exclusions of Lithuanian legacy in the U.S. were produced by major political events of the twentieth century.

Author : Zigmantas Kiaupa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Lithuania written by Zigmantas Kiaupa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ullrich Kockel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643913575
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Per Scribendum, Sumus written by Ullrich Kockel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mair'ead Nic Craith's has sought to integrate critical heritage studies, cultural history, literature and folklore into a creative ethnology. Issues of community and place, memory and nostalgia are key themes in her work. The tensions around forms, definitions and uses of heritage are picked up in the contributions to this book. Research essays engage with the wide range of topics Mair'ead has explored. Other contributions note her support and mentoring or illustrate the author's appreciation of her work through prose, music and artistic representations. Ullrich Kockel teaches at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, the Latvian Academy of Culture and Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas. He is Emeritus Professor of Ethnology at Ulster University, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Mair'ead's anam cara.

Author : Robert Lockwood
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503584747
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob’S Legacy written by Robert Lockwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 8, 1944, the war in Europe is bleeding to a close. The scion of a prominent New York family, US Army Lt. Col. Jacob Jay Rosenthal discovers six paintings, the works of great masters, in the bunker of a battle-battered mansion of a Nazi colonel in Frth, Germany. Deftly, he smuggles two of them to a Swiss bank vault, the others to New York City as hes deployed home. Three generations of Rosenthals commit themselves to finding the rightful owners, victims or heirs. Prophetically, Jay shunned restitution by governments, knowing that legitimate claimants would face the deceptions and ineptness of sputtering bureaucracies. The Rosenthals encounter illicit trading networks of ex-Nazis, tax-evading free-trade zone systems, and legal barriers and technicalities lobbied into place by a few great American and European museums. The Rosenthal weltanschaung never curdles, even as Jays daughter-in-law is murdered by hired German gangsters. Another family member dies mysteriously as her small plane hits a mountain near Nice, France, each having come close to finding the rightful owners. As Jacobs legacy seems a lost cause, his grandsons swampy deal to sell the billion-dollar collection suddenly disintegrates and for the right reasons. Set in New York City, the Hamptons, Monte Carlo, and Paris, the realities of illicit trade in Nazi-confiscated art coagulate into a corroborated denial of justice.