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Author : Nasi︠a︡ Kralevska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789549257199
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Shared Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain written by Nasi︠a︡ Kralevska and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536222348
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Genius Under the Table written by Eugene Yelchin and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.
Author : Ann Kimmage
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320786
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book An Un-American Childhood written by Ann Kimmage and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young woman's secret life behind the Iron Curtain.
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329643287
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Wall written by Peter Sís and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side-the Communist side-of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities-creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sis takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.--Publisher information.
Author : Ilse Van Goth
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781469902241
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Five Lives written by Ilse Van Goth and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine living through daily Allied air raids in WWII – as a young child. Only to have those bombing raids replaced by a Russian occupation; living behind the Iron Curtain. Then spending your adolescence under a government whose all-encompassing authority left nothing in your life untouched. You don't have to imagine. This is a reality shared by an entire generation. Join Ilse, her brother, sister, and cousins as they take you on a never-before-shared personal journey through their childhood. A childhood that will challenge your sensibilities. In stories that could only be told through the eyes of these five small children. You will witness first-hand the trials and tribulations, and the joys and the sorrows, of growing up as few can imagine. Where growing up meant less about celebrating birthdays and more about surviving daily life lessons. And you'll begin to understand the resiliency of children, and the responsibility we each have to teach and protect those who will follow in our footsteps. And most importantly, you'll see proof that the human spirit can triumph over unspeakable odds. And through that, can lead to a life lived well.
Author : Erika Haber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496813618
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Oz behind the Iron Curtain written by Erika Haber and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers credited Volkov as author rather than translator. Volkov, an unknown and inexperienced author before World War II, tried to break into the politically charged field of Soviet children's literature with an American fairy tale. During the height of Stalin's purges, Volkov adapted and published this fairy tale in the Soviet Union despite enormous, sometimes deadly, obstacles. Marketed as Volkov's original work, Wizard of the Emerald City spawned a series that was translated into more than a dozen languages and became a staple of Soviet popular culture, not unlike Baum's fourteen-volume Oz series in the United States. Volkov's books inspired a television series, plays, films, musicals, animated cartoons, and a museum. Today, children's authors and fans continue to add volumes to the Magic Land series. Several generations of Soviet Russian and Eastern European children grew up with Volkov's writings, yet know little about the author and even less about his American source, L. Frank Baum. Most Americans have never heard of Volkov and know nothing of his impact in the Soviet Union, and those who do know of him regard his efforts as plagiarism. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored by critics, scholars, and librarians for many years.
Author : Orsolya Cseh
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3710895359
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Tales from Behind the Iron Curtain. Life is a Story - story.one written by Orsolya Cseh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My family originates from Romania, where they spent the chaotic decades of the 20th century as members of the largest Hungarian minority. During the darkest years, the feared dictator, Nicolae Ceauescu governed socialist Romania, where people were merely striving to survive. But what was happening beyond the Iron Curtain? These twelve tales of mine, based on true stories, convey this message. "Then the Wall fell, holes were shot into the rotten heart of the dictatorships, but in my youth, the shadow of the Eastern Bloc still bared its iron fangs at me."
Author : Hadwig Gofferje
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059534271X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Memoir in Letters written by Hadwig Gofferje and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir in Letters: My Life on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain is the touching autobiography that first chronicles the young life of German-born Hadwig Gofferje, born during World War II, then living under communist rule. She describes her journey to freedom, complete with an American university education, and a new life in the United States. During her war-torn childhood in Germany, Hadwig lived in her own world, where she occupied herself for hours with drawing and playing with her dolls and imaginary friends. But at night, she endured many terrifying bombing raids by the Allied Forces in her family's basement bomb shelter. In 1945, after packing one carefully-chosen favorite toy in her suitcase, Hadwig and her family fled the approaching Russian Red Army and immigrated to a small village in Thuringia. Hadwig describes not a peaceful beginning to her life, but a life in which actions and choices were incredibly influenced by World War II and the division of Germany. Eventually moving, without her parents, to West Germany and later to the United States, Hadwig receives the university education that changes her life forever. In this remarkable personal narrative, Hadwig Gofferje describes how she was able to escape oppression and seek freedom, ultimately achieving personal peace, inner-strength, and a greater understanding of the world around her.
Author : Barbara Minas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548826673
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Moscow 1959: a Week with Dad written by Barbara Minas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow 1959: A Week with Dad behind the Iron Curtain. Considered evil and dangerous by her mother, Barb's mom finally agrees to let her daughter travel to the U.S.S.R. with her eccentric, rule-breaking father. Before she knows it, Barb is behind the Iron Curtain. In Vienna, the week before flying to Moscow, Barb, her sister, mom, and dad are caught up in the riots and demonstrations of a Communist Youth Festival. As if this wasn't enough, they then drive to see the "real" Iron Curtain along the Hungarian/Austrian border. The next week Barb's dad, Karl, is threatened by anti-capitalists, aids mistreated Americans and sneaks into the room of two anti-communist Hungarians. Followed every step of the way by a disapproving, government-issued tour guide, Karl and Barb's Moscow adventure ends with Karl winning over the guide with his American stubbornness and charm and Barb has a romantic encounter with a handsome Ukrainian!
Author : Marita Patos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942661160
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain written by Marita Patos and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marita's book is about life under a tyrannical government during the Cold War in East Germany. This is the first book of its kind in the United States of America.
Author : Haya Leah Molnar
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429944420
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Under a Red Sky written by Haya Leah Molnar and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe—even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain. Under a Red Sky is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author : Lilia McGinnis
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1418485454
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Echo of Memories written by Lilia McGinnis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilia McGinnis takes you on the journey of her unusual life, from the beauty of her childhood in the cities, towns, and mountain resorts of Bulgaria to the fear and horror of American bombs striking her neighborhood, from the struggles and discouragement of living under Communism to the opportunities afforded her as a professional violinist under that same regime, from the discomforts and grief of a refugee camp, to the wonders she discovers in America, from the difficulties of making a living in a new and free country to the goodness and helping-hands of so many people, from shopping in thrift shops in San Diego to standing in the presence of masterpieces and master performances here and abroad. You will cry with her over and over again as she relives her sorrows. And, you will smile and cheer at her stamina and courage. Most of all, this book offers something to think about regarding how our world was, how it is, and how it could be.
Author : Jessica Douglas-Home
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Once Upon Another Time written by Jessica Douglas-Home and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marita Patos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432782894
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written by Marita Patos and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain! In my biography I wrote about my life in former East-Berlin. The brainwashing started with the children in the kindergarten. In 1976 and early 1977 my ex husband and I had written 11 petitions to leave East-Berlin. We both had enough from the dictator state. We were sending letters to the Human Right Organization. Our petitions were rejected by the City Hall District without a reason. The Ministry for State Security short for Stasi had threatened us .We both thought a good escape plan was to kidnap a person with a car on the freeway. Inside the car we threatened the Diplomat with a knife and an explosive dummy. We wanted from the Diplomat to drive us over the Border to West-Germany. We tried to kidnap the 2 Secretary from the Cuban Embassy in former East-Berlin. He got scared and stopped the car. The Diplomat wanted to see our identity cards. We had our personal things in a plastic bag. The Diplomat was holding on to the bag. The bag got broken; everything was falling on the ground. We tried to pick up our personal things from the ground. The Diplomat was screaming at us to leave everything behind. Afterwards we went back to our apartment. In the same night we both got arrested by the Stasi. We were 7 months in the Stasi remand prison in Berlin Pankow. In the morning and many times in the night we were interrogated 8 to 12 hours by the Stasi. In the small cell I was alone for weeks. Each night we had to sleep by a very strict sleeping code. Every 10 to 15 minutes a Stasi warden had checked the cells. It was for me almost impossible to sleep. I was 8 days in an arrest cell in the cellar. The first 3 days I had nothing to eat and no water to drink. After our trial I received 5 years and 6 months prison time. My ex husband received 7 years. I had to serve my prison time in the former women prison Hoheneck. In the prison we had to live by strictly military rules and regulation. I was 23 months in the former women prison Hoheneck. The
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Behind the Iron Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Levente Batizy
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977215335
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain written by Levente Batizy and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Batizy family was Eastern European nobility during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries and continued to lead comfortable lives even as the importance of aristocracy faded. Then, the unimaginable happened. These centuries of happy, committed citizenship would all seemingly fade away in an instant as communism took over. Driven from their home after the 1956 Hungarian revolution against communist rule failed, the Batizys found themselves starting over, seeking and creating a new dream: the American dream. "The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain: The Batizy Story" is Levente Batizy's sweeping yet intimate immigration story. Starting with the story of the Batizy patriarch, the architect of the family's great escape, and following the sacrifices that the Batizy's mother and stepmother made during the resettlement. "The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain" also includes recollections from Batizy and his thirteen siblings following the fiftieth anniversary of the revolt.
Author : Erika Haber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496823373
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Oz Behind the Iron Curtain written by Erika Haber and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series
