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1 online resource (xviii, 320 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Contents -- FOREWORD BY Walter Laqueur -- INTRODUCTION -- DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS -- PART ONE: Berlin -- PART TWO Brussels -- PART THREE: Mechelen -- EPILOGUE -- AN AFTERWORD ON MECHELEN -- CREDITS |
| Summary |
Annotation The life-saving power of art. Berlin 1939. A few months after Kristallnacht, eighteen-year old Irene Spicker tries to flee to Belgium but ends up in a Nazi prison. Freed after a few weeks, she tries again--this time, in the dark of night, she successfully crosses the frontier. The Germans invaded Belgium, and Irene was forced into hiding. Constantly on the move, she worked as a farmhand, at one point using false identity papers. Arrested by the Gestapo, she sat in a cellar prison cell destined for transport to Auschwitz. To calm her fears, she made a small detailed drawing of her hand that was to save her life. Incarcerated in the concentration camp at Mechlen, she was assigned to paint signs, posters, and numbers for her fellow prisoners to wear around their necks. This is Irene Awret's story of her first twenty-five years, from coming of age in a middle-class Jewish family, to Mechlen, where she met the young sculptor Azriel Awret, to liberation and freedom once more |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Awret, Irene, 1921-2014 -- Childhood and youth
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Awret, Irene, 1921-2014 |
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Jewish artists -- United States -- Biography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
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Jews.
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Jews
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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Jews
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Jewish artists
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0299188337 |
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9780299188337 |
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