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Book Synopsis Childhood in Germany During World War II by : Karla O. Poewe
Download or read book Childhood in Germany During World War II written by Karla O. Poewe and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today a distinguished anthropologist, Karla Poewe was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, in 1941. In this autobiography, she tells of her early life as a vagrant refugee pursued by Russian armies and Allied bombs during World War II.
Book Synopsis Children of World War II by : Kjersti Ericsson
Download or read book Children of World War II written by Kjersti Ericsson and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany. This book looks at liaisons between German soldiers and civilian women in the occupied territories, and the Nazi Lebensborn program of racial hygiene.
Book Synopsis War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars by : Mischa Honeck
Download or read book War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars written by Mischa Honeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
Book Synopsis Frederike Helwig - Kriegskinder by : Frederike Helwig
Download or read book Frederike Helwig - Kriegskinder written by Frederike Helwig and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What were my parents doing when they were as old as my son is today? What made them what they are today?" These questions are examined by the photographer Frederike Helwig in her book Kriegskinder (Children of War). People who were born in the late 1930s and early 1940s, who grew up during World War II, are now in their eighth decade of life. They look back, some of them speaking for the first time ever about what marked them: bombs, fleeing, fear, hunger, illness, death, missing fathers, overwhelmed mothers--as well as the speechlessness of the post-war era, when memories of the war and its intergenerational consequences were supposed to be forgotten. The forty-five haunting portraits--all of them taken recently with an analog camera--are contrasted with the narratives of childhood experiences told by eyewitnesses. This makes Kriegskinder a portrait of a generation whose memories will soon disappear with them.Exhibition: 2.2.-8.4.2018, f3 - freiraum für fotografie, Berlin
Book Synopsis Hitler’s Boy Soldiers by : Helene Munson
Download or read book Hitler’s Boy Soldiers written by Helene Munson and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how Germany's child soldiers fought WWII, told through the personal lens of the author's father's rediscovered journal and meticulous historical research
Book Synopsis The War of Our Childhood by : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Download or read book The War of Our Childhood written by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another survivor recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes. These are typical in the stories collected in The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II. For this book Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, a childhood refugee himself after the fall of Nazi Germany, interviewed twenty-seven men and women who as children—by chance and sheer resilience—survived Allied bombs, invading armies, hunger, and chaos. “Our eyes carried no hate, only recognition of what was,” Samuel writes of his childhood. “Peace was an abstraction. The world we Kinder knew nearly always had the word ‘war’ appended to it.” Samuel's heartfelt narratives from these innocent survivors are invariably riveting and often terrifying. Each engrossing story has perilous and tragic moments—school children in Leuna who are sent home during an air raid but are strafed as moving targets; fathers who exist only as distant figures, returning to their families long after the war—or not at all; mothers who are raped and tortured; families who are forced into a seemingly endless relocation that replicates the terrors of war itself. In capturing such experiences from nearly every region of Germany and involving people of every socio-economic class, this is a collection of unique memories, but each account contributes to a cumulative understanding of the war that is more personal than strategic surveys and histories. For Samuel and the survivors he interviewed, agony and fright were part of everyday life, just as were play, wondrous experience, and above all perseverance. “My focus,” Samuel writes, “is on the astounding ability of a generation of German children to emerge from debilitating circumstances as sane and productive human beings.”
Book Synopsis A Hitler Youth in Poland by : Jost Hermand
Download or read book A Hitler Youth in Poland written by Jost Hermand and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period. Hermand also gives background into the camp's creation and development.
Book Synopsis Memories of a German Childhood by : Niels Buessem
Download or read book Memories of a German Childhood written by Niels Buessem and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author's father died, just 6 months short of his 90th birthday, the personal effects he left behind included the scientific papers he had written over the years, a few private letters, and lots of old photographs. Looking at pictures of what must have been his father's friends and colleagues from boarding school, university, and his days as a scientist in Germany, the author realized then how little he knew about his father's early life, and that he had waited too long to ask. His father had lived in a most interesting time. He was a young boy during World War I, had experienced the early days of electricity, radio, automobiles, and indoor plumbing, lived through Germany's great upheaval in the 1920s, witnessed both the rise and the fall of the Nazis, survived military service in World War II, and was lucky enough to be one of the German scientists recruited to come to the United States after the war. Yet he had seldom talked about the details of his life in Germany. At the time, the author thought about writing down his own reminiscences. He too had lived an interesting life, having grown up in Nazi Germany during World War II. Wouldn't his sons and their children be interested in reading about their father's (and grandfather's) background and experiences? He thought they might be. After all, it is part of their heritage. But it wasn't until about a year ago that he started to write about his childhood memories. And an amazing thing happened. The more he wrote, the more he remembered. Long forgotten details even the essence of conversations came back to him in great clarity. He was able to remember particulars that had been in deep storage for all these years. The first fourteen years of his life had been very different from the life led by his American friends, classmates, and colleagues. His family had lived through and survived a brutal regime and a devastating war. Luck played a large part in their being able to survive as a family and to move to the United States, while others they knew lost their homes, or friends in concentration camps, or husbands and fathers in battle. But as a child the author didn't dwell much on his good fortune. Instead he just concentrated on coping with whatever situation he would find himself in, and surviving as best he could. Writing down his memories, however, has made him realize just how very lucky he had been.
Book Synopsis My Childhood in Nazi Germany by : Elsbeth Emmerich
Download or read book My Childhood in Nazi Germany written by Elsbeth Emmerich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Germany in 1934, Elsbeth Emmerich was only five years old when World War II broke out. This is the autobiographical story of her childhood on the German home front, from her first days at school, through the departure of her father to join the war to the end of the war.
Book Synopsis Shame of Survival by : Ursula Mahlendorf
Download or read book Shame of Survival written by Ursula Mahlendorf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children of Terror by : Inge Auerbacher
Download or read book Children of Terror written by Inge Auerbacher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an "Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015" from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category. Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are caught in a web of terror during World War II. These are their unforgettable true stories. "War does not spare the innocent. Two young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, were witnesses to the horror of the Nazi occupation and Hitlers terror in Germany. As children they saw their homes and communities destroyed and loved ones killed. They survived deportation, labor camps, concentration camps, starvation, disease and isolation." This is a moving personal account of history. Urbanowicz and Auerbachers painful pasts and similar experiences should guide us to make correct decisions for the future." Aldona Wos, M.D. Ambassador of the United States of America, Retired, to the Republic of Estonia Daughter of Paul Wos, Flossenburg Concentration Camp, Prisoner Number 23504 Most Holocaust survivors are no longer with us, and that is why this volume is so important. It is a moving testimony by two courageous women, one Catholic and one Jewish, about their youthful ordeals at the hands of the Nazis. They succeed in ways even the most astute historian cannot they literally capture history and bring it to life. It is sure to touch all those who read it. William A. Donohue President, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Such an original book, written jointly by both a Jewish survivor and a Polish-Christian survivor of the Holocaust, Children of Terror points the way toward fresh insight, hope and redemption. If Never again is to be more than a slogan, tomorrows adults must be nourished and informed by books such as this. A fabulous piece of work, perfect for the young people who are our future. Rabbi Dr. Hirsch Joseph Simckes, St. Johns University, Department of Theology The authors were born in the same year but into different worlds: one a Polish Catholic and the other a German Jew. Despite their dramatically different traditions and circumstances, they shared a common trauma the confusion and fear of being a child in wartime. Auerbacher and Urbanowicz vividly describe the saving power of family, place, and tradition. Young readers of Children of Terror will come away with a deeper understanding of the Second World War and a profound admiration for the books authors. David G. Marwell, Ph.D., Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Book Synopsis Destined to Witness by : Hans Massaquoi
Download or read book Destined to Witness written by Hans Massaquoi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door -- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic,, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.
Book Synopsis WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN CHILD by : Reinhold Pflugfelder
Download or read book WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN CHILD written by Reinhold Pflugfelder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, the author intersperses his own WW II experiences as a young boy in Germany with the story of the war’s history— on both Eastern and Western battle fronts. Young Reinhold, born in 1937, was raised in Gottwollshausen, a small village in southern Germany, during the course of this war. After the Nazis drafted his father into the German army and sent him to the Russian front, Reinhold and his family—mother and two older brothers—experience the terror of Hitler and his Nazi regime, along with day and night air raids and bombings, followed by artillery attacks by the advancing Allied troops. In lieu of a normal, carefree childhood, Reinhold experiences the angst of a raging war right at his doorstep. Reinhold’s father survives the hardships of the war in Russia for three years, only to meet with a tragic end in the last week of the war. This memoir highlights the brutal and sadistic practices of Hitler and his Nazis.
Book Synopsis The Nicest Nazi: Childhood Memories of World War II by : Christiane Faris
Download or read book The Nicest Nazi: Childhood Memories of World War II written by Christiane Faris and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The childhood memories of a young German girl who suffered through the Nazi era during WWII.
Book Synopsis The War of Our Childhood by : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Download or read book The War of Our Childhood written by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of German survivors of World War II share their experiences as children enduring air raids, invading armies, deprivation, and hunger.
Download or read book War Children written by Michael Tradowsky and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Berlin in 1939, Michael Tradowsky celebrated his fourth birthday with his parents by helping his father tack up blackout paper over their windows. Germany was at war. For the next six years, the Tradowsky family endured the nightmare of the German home front. Intense and powerful, War Children shares the incredible saga of an ordinary German family during World War II. Looking back from the vantage of seventy years, Michaels memoir directly confronts how his childhood experiences, despite his parents attempt to give him a normal upbringing, were shaped by an epoch of rampant evil under Hitler. Michael shares how each member of his family had his or her own way of fighting against the regime. His courageous and outspoken aristocratic mother was determined to protect her son from Nazi brainwashing and sacrificed everything but her love and honor to keep her children alive. His father, a promising theater director, rubbed shoulders with the great entertainers of the timeuntil his refusal to join the Nazi Party destroyed his aspirations. But perhaps Michaels love for his baby sister exemplifies the tragedy of a childhood spent in war, for her very life depended on him carrying her to the bomb shelter. From winding roads twisting through the tall pines of the Black Forest to trucks crammed with refugees, War Children offers a sobering testimony for children victimized by war, past and present.
Book Synopsis A Girl's Life in Germany Between Two World Wars by : Anni Craemer
Download or read book A Girl's Life in Germany Between Two World Wars written by Anni Craemer and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anni Craemer, nee Sperling, was born in 1924 in Witten on the Ruhr River, the daughter of a railroad employee. She died in Bad Duerkheim in the Palatinate in 2003. In this book, she remembers her life between 1924 and 1960 for her grandsons. But at the same time, she testifies for a whole generation of her contemporaries. Her mother dies soon after her birth, and Anni spends the first six years of her life in the care of her beloved "Oma." Not only this grandmother, but the whole village of Holzhausen near the town of Hoexter, provides her with a feeling of safety and caring. She feels a strong connection to Holzhausen for the rest of her life. Completely unprepared, she is yanked out of these surroundings when it is time to enter school. Her father brings her to the city of Witten to meet family members whom she had not known about and who remain strangers. She has trouble adjusting to city life, and is happy when she can return to the village during vacation times, alas, never to stay for long. This conflict overshadows her whole life. Then comes WWII, the horrific war started by the Nazis. It brings with it new losses for the long-suffering family, and is followed by the difficult years after the war with its many deprivations. But finally, there is hope. She meets her future husband, and despite initial conflicts because of their different religious denominations, she is finally able to start her own life with him. They dedicate their lives to social work with youth and the handicapped. She writes short chapters about her difficult life with almost detached objectivity, describing the lives of many others whom she meets along her life's journey. In few sentences, she sketches characters and events so well that they mange to capture the very spirit and essence of the times. Her almost poetic descriptions of village life become a monument to her beloved Holzhausen. Out of this mosaic of many ordinary details she creates a vivid and convincing picture of those times. This unusual report about an extraordinary life of a woman in an extraordinary time will leave no reader unmoved.
