Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's...
Postcolonising the Medieval Image
Eva Frojmovic and Catherine E. Karkov
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Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three...
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in...
Hitler's Berlin: Abused City
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How Berlin captivated Hitler's imagination, and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin: The Amazing Story of the Seiler Family in Books
Jan 29, 2023
No matter how many of these types of books I read, it never ceases to shock me how 'human beings' can develop an insidious culture against others just because they are different be it religion, race or whatever. What I didn't realise was how, even after the Russians liberated the death and labour camps created by the Nazi regime, the persecution of Jews continued for those living behind the 'Iron Curtain'.
This book has opened my eyes to the continued injustice and oppression that was inflicted upon the Jewish people by the Stalin regime despite the horrors they had been subjected to by the Nazis but what it also did was show the resilience, bravery and hope the Seiler family demonstrated despite the tragedies and hardships they encountered and experienced.
This is a must-read for people who are interested in European history and to ensure that the voices of those who went through one of the darkest periods of the twentieth century are not forgotten and I must thank Pen & Sword and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of this book.
Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory
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The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful...
The Melencolia Manifesto
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Few artworks have been the subject of more extensive modern interpretation than Melencolia I by...
Gandhi: An Anti-Biography of a Great Soul
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This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French...
A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps
Tom Harper and Tim Bryars
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The 20th century was a golden age of map-making, and maps permeated almost every aspect of daily...