City of Life, City of Death
"With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival..." -- Elie Wiesel. "Through the prism of his own experiences, Michelson provides a wonderful glimpse into Eastern European life both before and during the Nazi occupation of Latvia..." -- Julie D Freeman, SUNY-Oneonta.
A 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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University Press of Colorado
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 187
- ISBN
- 9780870817885
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival..." -- Elie Wiesel. "Through the prism of his own experiences, Michelson provides a wonderful glimpse into Eastern European life both before and during the Nazi occupation of Latvia..." -- Julie D Freeman, SUNY-Oneonta.