An Underground Life

Author : Gad Beck
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299165048
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Underground Life written by Gad Beck and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.

Author : Larry Orbach
Publisher : Howells House
ISBN 13 : 9780929590158
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soaring Underground written by Larry Orbach and published by Howells House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orbach's memoir is a stylish and inspiring account of his life in Berlin's underworld of "divers" where young Jews survived by street smarts and an indomitable spirit which he delicately portrays. After his father is arrested and his mother and sister go into hiding, the young man is left to his own devices finding company among other survivors who outwit the Nazis in surreal adventures. Finally, betrayed by an informer, Orbach is sent to Auschwitz. But, as he says himself, he has left that part of his journey for others to tell, concentrating instead on the humanity and faith which he found on Berlin's streets. Distributed by Paul and Company. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Marie Jalowicz Simon
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316382116
Total Pages : 38410 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground in Berlin written by Marie Jalowicz Simon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 38410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, and disappeared into the city. In the years that followed, Marie took shelter wherever it was offered, living with the strangest of bedfellows, from circus performers and committed communists to convinced Nazis. As Marie quickly learned, however, compassion and cruelty are very often two sides of the same coin. Fifty years later, Marie agreed to tell her story for the first time. Told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, Underground in Berlin is a book like no other, of the surreal, sometimes absurd day-to-day life in wartime Berlin. This might be just one woman's story, but it gives an unparalleled glimpse into what it truly means to be human.

Author : Ronald Sukenick
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down and In written by Ronald Sukenick and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down and In: Life in the Underground was originally published in 1987 and traces the development of New York's underground scene by way of Lower Manhattan's hotspots from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. A dialogic and semi-autobiographical report, Down and In taps the immediate wealth of experience of many subterraneans down and in as voiced in face-to-face interviews with the narrator. "Making this book was more than bar-hopping down memory lane. It is a collaborative cross-cultural construction with a star-studded road gang helping Ron find the way to his own history. And more." -- New York Times Book Review This newly designed edition of Down and In is Volume 10 of The Ronald Sukenick Edition. RONALD SUKENICK (1932-2004) was one of the most important innovators, editors, and critics of US-American literature. His eight novels, three collections of short stories, and four books of nonfiction/theory, published between 1968 and 2005, have variously been described as avantgarde, energetically performative, dissident, revisionistic, and a threat to all hierarchies. Educated at Cornell University, New York, and Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Sukenick taught as Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1975 to 1999, where he was also director of the creative writing program. Sukenick co-founded the publishing house the Fiction Collective (now FC2) and edited the journals American Book Review and Black Ice Magazine.

Author : Don Papson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618712
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City written by Don Papson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay’s closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. These never before published records are annotated in this book. Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality.

Author : William Still
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2030 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underground Railroad Collection: Real Life Stories of the Former Slaves and Abolitionists written by William Still and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 2030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes used by Southern slaves in escaping to the North. In their attempts they were often guided and helped by former fugitive slaves and abolitionist who were known as the conductors. Unravel the secrets of these incredible and unforgettable life journeys and the people who took these treacherous routes to freedom. This edition includes carefully compiled and detailed documentation about the lives and escapes of over 100 former slaves along with the incredible life stories of the two courageous female conductors, Harriet Tubman and Laura S. Haviland, who risked their own lives in helping these slaves cross over to the North in the dead of the night. So come and relive the stories of extraordinary courage, heart breaking saga of grief and separation and the overwhelming desire to break free! A MUST READ! William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist who recorded the stories of fugitive slaves to help them reunite with their families. Sarah H. Bradford (1818–1912) was an American writer, historian and a very close friend of Harriet Tubman. Bradford was also a contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Laura S. Haviland (1808-1898) was an American abolitionist, suffragette, and social reformer. She is credited to have established the first racially integrated school in Michigan with her husband, which gave lectures about the realities of life on a slave plantation.

Author : THOMAS W. KNOX
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book UNDERGROUND OR LIFE BELOW THE SURFACE. written by THOMAS W. KNOX and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erna Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783899957280
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Life Underground written by Erna Berg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Life Underground. A Jewish woman from the village of Berne in hiding in Amsterdam 1943 - 1945 is a tale of the fate of a Jewish family who fled from Nazi Germany to Amsterdam. It is written from the perspective of a survivor in her new homeland, the U.S.A. The author, Erna Berg, and her husband, Eduard Berg, ended up, after a series of hiding places, in the center of Amsterdam at Reguliersgracht 34. Their life underground resulted in survival, thanks to the help of courageous people who, risking their own lives, invested enormous effort, creativity and their own resources to save the people they hid.

Author : David Wolfe
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786730935
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales From The Underground written by David Wolfe and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, and many of them perform functions essential to all life on the planet. Yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David W. Wolfe lifts the veil on this hidden world, revealing for the first time what makes subterranean life so unique and so precious. Home to miniscule water bears and microscopic bacteria, mole rats and burrowing owls, the underground reigns supreme as it produces important pharmaceuticals, recycles life's essential elements, and helps plants gather nutrients. An original, awe-inspiring journey through a strange realm, Tales from the Underground will forever alter our appreciation of the natural world around-and beneath-us.

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underground World written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: