The Lemberg Mosaic

Author : Jakob Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983109105
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lemberg Mosaic written by Jakob Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lemberg Mosaic by Jakob Weiss brings to light the little-known story of the total and tragic destruction of Jewish Lemberg. In pre-war days, the city once known as Lwów was the third largest in Poland with the third largest Jewish population (after Warsaw and Lódz). While some call it the "Holocaust by Bullets," or the "Shoah of Jewish Galicia" or even the "Ukrainian Holocaust," what we now know for certain is that over one million Jews were systematically murdered during World War II in the eastern-most area of Poland, also known as Galicia, today's west Ukraine. Lemberg, dubbed the "Soul of Galicia," was a vibrant Jewish cultural center for hundreds of towns, villages, and "shtetls" in the surrounding region; south to the Carpathian Mountains of Hungary and Rumania, east to the Soviet Union, west as far as Kraków, and north to areas populated by the Lithuanian Jews. In the wake of Hitler's "final solution," all eastern Galicia was rendered Judenrein. The late Simon Wiesenthal, who had escaped from Lemberg's Janowska - a death and transit camp, now the mass grave of over 200,000 Jewish martyrs and in 1942 the re-routing point for another 500,000 sent to Belzec, the Nazi's infamous death factory - lamented that so little had been written about this important aspect of the Holocaust. He stated, "[t]here are only about a dozen accounts of the Janowska concentration camp," and concluded, "my heart bleeds when I read them, but I also feel a certain satisfaction, because after all, there are some lucky ones who survived." In fact, only 200 did, and only about 500 others survived the demise of Lemberg's Jewish community. Today, Lemberg is called L'viv and Janowska is a lonely patch of woods in Ukraine. The Lemberg Mosaic is the story of four families with deep roots and strong ties to Galicia. It details their struggle for survival - against all odds. It is one part history book, one part genealogy & forensic research, one part adventure story, and all true.

Author : Jakob Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983109112
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lemberg Mosaic written by Jakob Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heleen Zorgdrager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910383230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Lemberg written by Heleen Zorgdrager and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book about the Jews of Lviv. The empty spaces, where once stood the synagogues, are filled now with powerful stories of survivors and newcomers. The core of the book consists of three life-stories of Jewish survivors, whose lives are interwoven with the tragic history of the city. All three life-stories are accompanied by a chapter on material places and their histories. In these attention is not only paid to the past, but also to the contemporary Jewish community in Lviv. The book is preceded by a historical introduction and in the end matter the reader will find lists of literature and websites for further information. Carefully selected pictures enrich the text throughout, and the book includes a visitor's map of the town.

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472828356
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Knife's Edge written by Prit Buttar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides. The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus's army left Germany's eastern armies severely weakened, but the Red Army had suffered enormous losses as it overreached itself in trying to exploit its great victory. The war was not over. Germany would continue the fight, and the battles that took place in the winter of 1942/43 would show the tactical and operational skill of Erich von Manstein and the Wehrmacht as they attempted to avert total disaster. In this title, now available in paperback, a renowned expert on warfare on the Eastern Front reveals the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing. Drawing on first-hand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities and survival in the harshest theatre of war.

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Publisher : Alderbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0983109141
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zebras & Picket Fences written by and published by Alderbrook Press. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Markian Prokopovych
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535108
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Habsburg Lemberg written by Markian Prokopovych and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, the province's capital, Lemberg, was a decaying Baroque town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had become a booming city with a modern urban and, at the same time, distinctly Habsburg flavor. In the process of the "long" nineteenth century, both Lemberg's appearance and the use of public space changed remarkably. The city center was transformed into a showcase of modernity and a site of conflicting symbolic representations, while other areas were left decrepit, overcrowded, and neglected. Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772–1914 reveals that behind a variety of national and positivist historical narratives of Lemberg and of its architecture, there always existed a city that was labeled cosmopolitan yet provincial; and a Vienna, but still of the East. Buildings, streets, parks, and monuments became part and parcel of a complex set of culturally driven politics.

Author : Philippe Sands
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525433724
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East West Street written by Philippe Sands and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities. This is “a monumental achievement ... told with love, anger and precision” (John le Carré, acclaimed internationally bestselling author). East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in “the Paris of Ukraine,” a major cultural center of Europe, a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. Phillipe Sands changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder

Author : Sergey R. Kravtsov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783933713551
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Ausgleich to the Holocaust written by Sergey R. Kravtsov and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Weber
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595857884
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Mosaic written by Helen Weber and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivors, especially, will appreciate Weber's account of Hitler's war against the Jews; from killing Jews at the edge of the pit to Zyklon-B and the crematoria.

Author : Christopher Mick
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557536716
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lemberg, Lwow, and Lviv 1914-1947 written by Christopher Mick and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews) reacted to the sweeping political changes during and after World Wars I and II. The Eastern Front shifted back and forth, and the city changed hands seven times. At the end of each war, L'viv found itself in the hands of a different state. While serious tensions had existed among Poles, Ukrainians/Ruthenians, and Jews in the city, before 1914 eruptions of violence were still infrequent. The changes of political control over the city during World War I led to increased intergroup frictions, new power relations, and episodes of shocking violence, particularly against Jews. The city's incorporation into the independent Polish Republic in November 1918 after a brief period of Ukrainian rule sparked intensified conflict. Ukrainians faced discrimination and political repression under the new government, and Ukrainian nationalists attacked the Polish state. In the 1930s, anti-Semitism increased sharply. During World War II, the city experienced first Soviet rule, then Nazi occupation, and finally Soviet conquest. The Nazis deported and murdered nearly all of the city's large Jewish population, and at the end of the war the Soviet forces expelled the city's Polish inhabitants. Based on archival research conducted in L'viv, Kiev, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow, as well as an array of contemporary printed sources and scholarly studies, this book examines how the inhabitants of the city reacted to the changes in political control, and how ethnic and national ideologies shaped their dealings with each other. An earlier German version of this volume was published as Kriegserfahrungen in einer multiethnischen Stadt: Lemberg 1914-1947 (2011).