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Irma's Story

Author : Peter B. Gawenda
Publisher : BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN 13 : 1612540864
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Irma's Story written by Peter B. Gawenda and published by BrownBooks.ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The compelling true story of the impassioned love shared between a south Texas woman of Hispanic descent and a German military officer.” —Yvonne Freeman, PhD, professor, Department of Language, Literacy, and Intercultural Studies at the University of Texas at Brownsville After World War II, Peter, a handsome German pilot, met Irma, a beautiful Texan woman of Hispanic descent. It was love at first sight. Their meeting had been prophesized—for Irma by her grandmother and for Peter by a palm reader—and together the couple would create an extraordinary life. Irma’s Story: American by Birth, Hispanic by Choice chronicles Irma’s life and the experiences of the “Texan Gawendas” during their tenure in the German military in Europe and the United States. Though Irma, accepted as an American while in Europe, faced discrimination in her home country and contended with the challenges of being a military wife, Peter’s love and companionship remained constant. In his second book, Peter B. Gawenda, author of The Children’s War, offers readers an insider’s view of the joys that the marriage of two people—from two completely different worlds—can bring. Presenting the dynamics of racial issues against the backdrop of military life, the captivating story of Irma Lozano de Gawenda depicts a fearless, fiercely loyal woman willing to do anything for her family. Written with a passion that has spanned five decades, Irma’s Story celebrates the strength of a once-in-a-lifetime love. “He thrills [readers] again, turning to his narrative gifts and rich trove of memories to tell another story with universal appeal—the power of enduring love.” —Robert Becker, veteran journalist and former international wire news editor, Houston Chronicle

Irma's Story

Author :
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1456074091
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Irma's Story written by and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300116854
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years. Focusing on 100 Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, it includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.

Irma's Story

Author : Peter Bodo Gawenda
Publisher : Brown Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781612544168
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Irma's Story written by Peter Bodo Gawenda and published by Brown Books Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Always remember today's date," her grandmother said to Irma. "El diez de Mayo"--the tenth of May. After World War II, Peter, a handsome German pilot, met Irma, a beautiful Texan woman of Hispanic descent. It was love at first sight. Their meeting had been prophesized--for Irma by her grandmother and for Peter by a Gypsy--and together the couple would create an extraordinary life. Irma's Story: American by Birth, Hispanic by Choice chronicles Irma's life and the experiences of the "Texan Gawendas" during their tenure in the German military in Europe and the United States. Though Irma, accepted as an American while in Europe, faced discrimination in her home country and contended with the challenges of being a military wife, Peter's love and companionship remained constant. In his second book, Peter B. Gawenda, author of The Children's War, offers readers an insider's view of the joys that the marriage of two people--from two completely different worlds--can bring. Presenting the dynamics of racial issues against the backdrop of military life, the captivating story of Irma Lozano de Gawenda depicts a fearless, fiercely loyal woman willing to do anything for her family. Written with a passion that has spanned five decades, Irma's Story celebrates the strength of an once-in-a-lifetime love.

Irma's Passport

Author : Catherine Ehrlich
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647423066
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Irma's Passport written by Catherine Ehrlich and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping family tale, Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents’ influential lives at the crossroads of German and Jewish national movements. Weaving her grandmother Irma’s spellbinding memoirs into her narrative, she profiles a charismatic woman who confronts history with courage and rebuilds lives—for herself and Europe’s dispossessed. Starting out in Bohemia’s picturesque countryside, Irma studies languages in Prague alongside Kafka and Einstein—and so joins Europe’s intelligentsia. Tension builds as World War I destroys that world, and Irma marries prominent Zionist, Jakob Ehrlich, bold advocate for Vienna’s 180,000 Jews. Irma’s direct words detail the weeks after Hitler’s arrival when Adolf Eichmann himself appears to liberate Irma and her son from Vienna. Irma’s stunning turnaround in London unfolds amidst a dazzling cohort of luminaries—Chaim and Vera Weizmann, and Viscountess Beatrice Samuel among them. Irma finds her voice as an activist, saving lives and resettling refugees, and ultimately moves on to New York where her work resumes among high-profile friends like Catskills hostess Jennie Grossinger. Along the way, Ehrlich queries her family’s fate: what was behind Eichmann's twisted role in her grandparents’ lives? How was Irma able to focus outwardly when her own life was in crisis? Part intimate memoir, part historical thriller, Irma’s Passport is an inspiring true story about remarkable women whose unsung courage restored the world we know. This is a book for fans of Edmund de Waal, Erik Larson, and Alexander Wolff.

When Man Listens

Author : Cecil Rose
Publisher : carl (tuchy) palmieri
ISBN 13 : 9781419663185
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book When Man Listens written by Cecil Rose and published by carl (tuchy) palmieri. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of an edition published in New York in 1937 by Oxford University Press.

Irma in Italy

Author : Helen Leah Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irma in Italy written by Helen Leah Reed and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irma’s Gun

Author : Monet Thompson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166414658X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Irma’s Gun written by Monet Thompson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irma’s Gun is the story of a poor Indian woman who obtains a license to kill after saving the president’s life. This “license” is passed down through generations either fearful of the privilege or overly aggressive in wanting to use it. Bryce, Irma's descendant, becomes the main character who grapples to live with the license, not even realizing that she has it. Her whole life is stifled because everyone knows it but her. In the end, she is content to find a small piece of happiness.

The Children's War

Author : Peter Bodo Gawenda
Publisher : BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN 13 : 1612549020
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Children's War written by Peter Bodo Gawenda and published by BrownBooks.ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of an innocent boy growing up in Hitler’s Germany is “a unique memoir…highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Review Peter and his brothers saw the war not as military or national history, but as the adventure of everyday living. They experienced bombs dropping, soldiers occupying their home, and prisoners of war marching through the streets—all of which seemed like mere intrusions into their childhood existence. They not only survived, but thrived, during The Children's War. The strength of family ties carried the Gawenda boys through the war and shaped the author’s perspective, making The Children's War an uplifting reading experience. Gawenda draws on his childhood in Germany during WWII to reflect the impact the war had on children. Born in the Third Reich under Hitler, Gawenda, through a child's point of view, shares his family's heartbreak, joy, humor, and cunning during their days in Oberglogau before their desperate flight from Russian conquerors to safety in Bavaria.

Irma

Author : Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294869
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Irma written by Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Steinberg’s Irma, painstakingly crafted out of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein’s voluminous writings, gives us an inspiring and richly rewarding account of the life and times of an active, socially engaged woman who devoted herself to her family and her community over the course of a long and full life. Irma (1871-1966) was born in Chicago—just before the Chicago Fire—of German Jewish parents who had come to the U.S. shortly after the Civil War. Irma attended public schools and the University of Chicago, participated energetically in Jewish women’s and social-welfare activities, raised her family, and published one poem and a small book. Irma’s journals and diaries were private accounts in which she chronicled the rhythm of her days and the shape of her life. She recorded her thoughts and short quotations from her reading, jotted down her own poems and short stories, constructed dinner-party menus, and wrote biographical sketches of her family. Interspersed among the records of what she did when and with whom are a number of lengthy reflections on Chicago history, her early life, religious beliefs, education, her aspirations, disappointments, sorrows, and successes. She documented her family’s activities during the Chicago Fire, the city’s rebuilding, early educational curricula in the city’s schools, what it was like to participate in the suffrage movement and vote for the first time, the effect of the Great Depression on the middle class, and World War II as seen from her perspective. In each chapter, Ellen Steinberg has set Irma’s contemporary entries and later memoirs against the context of the Chicago history that Irma knew so well. Irma’s story will fascinate those interested in diaries and autobiography, women’s history, and Chicago history. From a plethora of rich source materials—including over half a million words of Irma’s writings alone—Steinberg has created a seamless, fascinating narrative about a Chicago woman who, although “nobody famous” (in her words), lived a vital life in a vibrant city.

The Lilly Hill Story

Author : Irma Stowers
Publisher : Bookman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781594535390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Lilly Hill Story written by Irma Stowers and published by Bookman Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art

Author : LaNitra M. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187518
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art written by LaNitra M. Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.

Remembering Irma

Author : Mona Berman
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919930275
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Irma written by Mona Berman and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irma Stern was a women painter of the twentieth century. This book shares her letters, situating them in the context in which they were written. These letters shed light on parts of the artist's life: her unhappy love affairs, her volatile relationships and her travels into remote parts of Africa.

Never Talk to Strangers

Author : Irma Joyce
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0375849645
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Never Talk to Strangers written by Irma Joyce and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are hanging from a trapeze And up sneaks a camel with bony knees, Remember this rule, if you please— Never talk to strangers. This book brilliantly highlights situations that children will find themselves in—whether they’re at home and the doorbell rings, or playing in the park, or mailing a letter on their street—and tells them what to do if a stranger (always portrayed as a large animal, such as a rhino) approaches. Colorful, ’60s-style “psychedelic” artwork and witty, lively rhyme clearly spell out a message about safety that empowers kids, and that has never been more relevant. Irma Joyce wrote many Golden Books during the 1960s. George Buckett was a popular children’s book illustrator during the 1960s.

The Seamstress

Author : Frances de Pontes Peebles
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408816954
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Seamstress written by Frances de Pontes Peebles and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emília and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. Emília treasures pretty, girlish things and longs to escape from the confines of the little town. Captivated by the romances she reads in magazines, she dreams of finding love in the bustle and glamour of the city. Luzia, scarred by a childhood accident that has left her with a deformed arm, knows that for her, real life can not be romantically embroidered, and so she finds solace in her sewing and in the secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. But when Luzia is abducted by a gang of rebel bandits, the sisters' lives diverge in ways they never imagined. Whilst Luzia learns to survive in the unforgiving Brazilian outland, discovering love in the most unexpected of places, Emília meets the son of a wealthy doctor who seems to offer her everything she has always desired. But for the innocent dreamer, the excitement of her escape to the city is soon overshadowed by disillusion and loneliness. As she learns how to navigate the treacherous waters of Brazilian high society, the bandits' campaign against the land-owning 'Colonels' intensifies, and when a price is placed upon Luzia's head Emília realises she must risk everything in order to save her sister.

The Girl From the Train

Author : Irma Joubert
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0529102927
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Girl From the Train written by Irma Joubert and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl’s unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost in a country hostile to her people. When Jakób discovers her, guilt and fatherly compassion prompt him to take her in. For three years, the young man and little girl form a bond over the secrets they must hide from his Catholic family. But she can’t stay with him forever. Jakób sends Gretl to South Africa, where German war orphans are promised bright futures with adoptive Protestant families—so long as Gretl’s Jewish roots, Catholic education, and connections to communist Poland are never discovered. Separated by continents, politics, religion, language, and years, Jakób and Gretl will likely never see each other again. But the events they have both survived and their belief that the human spirit can triumph over the ravages of war have formed a bond of love that no circumstances can overcome. Praise for The Girl from the Train: “A riveting read with an endearing, courageous protagonist . . . takes us from war-torn Poland to the veldt of South Africa in a story rich in love, loss, and the survival of the human spirit.” —Anne Easter Smith, author of A Rose for the Crown Full-length World War II historical novel International bestseller Includes a glossary

After the Girls Club

Author : Carole Bell Ford
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739146084
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book After the Girls Club written by Carole Bell Ford and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II the Girls Club of Brooklyn, New York, became home and safe haven to a small group of young women, orphaned in the Holocaust, whose stories represent the experiences of tens of thousands of child survivors. This book follows them from childhood to the present as they, contrary to early predictions, built new and successful lives in America. In old age the women, once again, are defying bleak expectations.