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- The traitor's daughter : captured by Nazis, pursued by the KGB, my mother's odyssey to freedom from her secret past / by Spicer, Roxana,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-450).Prologue -- "I am like a wolf, forever looking back to where I came from" -- "I don't want you to romanticize Russia" -- "I've been right in the middle of it. Every face of that rotten war." -- "This story should never be told. Not your mother's story, no." -- "Not everything went according to the heroic-fucking-plan." -- "Girlie, you really landed this time, didn't you?" -- "I wanted to live, I wanted to live.""The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity--but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming. Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now--perhaps forever--lost again. The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Spicer, Agnes.; Spicer, Roxana; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; World War, 1939-1945; Mothers and daughters.; Family secrets.; Russians;
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- El viaje de Cilka / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873; Rey, Santiago del,translator.(CARDINAL)692128; Díez Pérez, Ma. José(María José),translator.(CARDINAL)832836;
"The new novel by Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist at Auschwitz. A novel based on an extraordinary true story of love and survival. Beauty was her doom and love was her salvation. At just sixteen years old, the Jewish prisoner Cilka Klein was Becoming the concubine of one of the Auschwitz-Birkenau commanders, she was saved from starvation, illness or in the gas chambers, but, after liberation, was accused of collaborating and spying on the NKVD, the brutal Soviet secret police. And so, for the second time in three years, Cilka is once again crowded into a cattle train that will transport her to Vorkuta, the Siberian gulag located ninety-nine miles from the Circle where she will have to meet more than ten years. Conviction of forced labor. Fortunately, Cilka manages to become an assistant in the gulag's infirmary and there she meets Ivan Kovac, convalescing due to mistreatment and malnutrition, and little by little they fall in love. Cilka will discover her cap human acity for love, generosity and survival, and I will keep hope alive in this terrible and desolate place."--Provided by publisher."La nueva novela de Heather Morris, autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Una novela basada en una extraordinaria historia real de amor y supervivencia. La belleza fue su condena y el amor su salvaci̤n. Con solo diecišis ąos, la prisionera jud̕a Cilka Klein fue convertida en la concubina de uno de los comandantes de Auschwitz- Birkenau. Se salv̤ de morir de hambre, enfermedad o en las c̀maras de gas, pero, tras la liberaci̤n, fue acusada de colaboradora y esp̕a ante la NKVD, la brutal polic̕a secreta sovǐtica. Y as̕, por segunda vez en tres ąos, Cilka se encuentra de nuevo hacinada en un tren de ganado que la transportar̀ a Vorkuta, el gulag de Siberia situado a noventa y nueve millas del C̕rculo en el que deber̀ cumplir con m̀s de diez ąos de condena de trabajos forzados. Por fortuna, Cilka consigue convertirse en ayudante en la enfermer̕a del gulag y all̕ conocer̀ a Ivan Kovac, convaleciente a causa del maltrato y la desnutrici̤n, y poco a poco se enamoran. Cilka descubrir̀ su capacidad humana para el amor, la generosidad y la supervivencia, y lograr̀ mantener viva la esperanza en este terrible y desolado lugar."--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Spanish language materials.; Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Materiales en español.; Ficción histórica.; Ficción.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Women prisoners; Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Birkenau (Campo de concentración); Prisioneras; Ex reclusos del campo de concentración;
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- In his father's footsteps [sound recording] : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)341853; Miller, Dan John,narrator.(CARDINAL)340509;
Read by Dan John Miller of the 2018 book.The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Adult children of immigrants; Americanization; Immigrants; American Dream; Fathers and sons; Ex-concentration camp inmates; Children of Holocaust survivors; Marital conflict; Social mobility; Wealth; Wealth;
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- In his father's footsteps [audio-enabled device] a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)341853; Miller, Dan John,narrator.(CARDINAL)340509; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887; Recorded Books, Inc.(CARDINAL)340508;
Narrated by Dan John Miller.When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success in the diamond business, invested in real estate in New York, and shown his son, Max, that America is truly the land of opportunity. Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious families in the world. And while his parents were thrown together by chance, Max chooses a perfect bride to start the perfect American family. An opulent society wedding. A honeymoon in Tahiti. A palatial home in Greenwich. Max's lavish lifestyle is unimaginable to his cautious old-world father and mother. Max wants to follow his father's example and make his own fortune. But after the birth of children, and with a failing marriage, he can no longer deny that his wife is not the woman he thought she was. Angry and afraid, Max must do what he has never done before: struggle, persevere, and learn what it means to truly walk in his father's footsteps, while pursuing his own ideals and setting an example for his children. Moving from the ashes of postwar Europe to the Lower East Side of New York to wealth, success and unlimited luxury, In His Father's Footsteps is a stirring tale of three generations of strong, courageous and loving people who pay their dues to achieve their goals.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.- Subjects: Playaway.; Audiobooks.; Adult children of immigrants; American Dream; Americanization; Children of Holocaust survivors; Ex-concentration camp inmates; Fathers and sons; Immigrants; Jewish historical fiction.; Marital conflict; Social mobility; Wealth; Wealth;
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