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1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) : portraits, maps, charts |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Growing Up in Prewar Latvia -- 1. My Background -- 2. Grandmother Emma -- 3. The Jewish Community of Riga -- 4. My Father -- 5. My Mother and Our Home -- 6. Grandmother Sophie and the Griliches Family -- 7. Sylvia -- 8. My Aunts and Uncles -- 9. Thea, Arthur, and Manfred Peter -- 10. Summers at Jurmala -- 11. My Schools -- 12. Soviet Occupation of Latvia -- Part II: The War and Postwar Years -- 13. Germany Attacks the Soviet Union -- 14. The Nazis Enter Riga -- 15. Riga Ghetto -- 16. Aktion: The Destruction of the Riga Ghetto |
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17. Little Ghetto -- 18. KZ Kaiserwald -- 19. KZ Stutthof -- 20. Polte-Werke-Magdeburg -- 21. Liberation -- 22. Human Again -- 23. Finding Relatives -- 24. A New Country, a New Beginning -- 25. Building a Life -- The Michelson Family Tree -- The Griliches Family Tree -- Notes |
| Summary |
City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's 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. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family; it is the speech of their muted voices and a thank you for their love. Although badly scarred by his experiences, like many other survivors he was able to rebuild his life and gain a new sense of what it means to be alive. His experiences will be of interest to scholars of both the Holocaust and Eastern European history, as well as the general reader |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Michelson, Max, 1924-
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Michelson, Max, 1924-
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Michelson, Max, 1924- fast |
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Jews -- Latvia -- Rīga -- Biography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Latvia -- Rīga -- Personal narratives
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Jews
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Judenvernichtung
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Überlebender
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Holocaust.
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Rīga (Latvia) -- Biography
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Latvia -- Rīga
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Riga
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001027210 |
| ISBN |
0870816926 |
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9780870816925 |
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9780870817885 |
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0870817884 |
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1280500980 |
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9781280500985 |
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6610500983 |
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9786610500987 |
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