Author : Helga von Schweinitz
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781793999580
Recipes from Hans and Helga von Schweinitz along with photos
Author : Disney Books
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368097731
Papa Bunny is always telling Thumper to eat his greens or to be nice to others. One day, Thumper is having too much fun to listen. But then, Thumper comes to realize why his father said what he did and decides to make things right. With lyrical text and adorable illustrations, this jacketed picture book is the perfect gift for Father's Day.
Author : Bill Franz
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 103910701X
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Stalin ordered the deportation of Russian citizens of German descent to Siberia. After his father and uncles were sent off to the Gulag, sixteen-year-old Johann Franz volunteered to join the Wehrmacht as an interpreter. This eventually saw him wounded and evacuated to Austria. He met and fell in love with the young Polish-born Ella Weber in a refugee camp in Germany. The product of more than sixty years of reflection, Mutti and Papa is a family history that traces the love story of the parents of author Bill Franz, Mennonite refugees fleeing war-torn Europe, over the course of World War II. The story is largely told through their love letters to one another, across continents, while his father, Johann, awaits immigration to Canada to join his fiancée, Franz’s mother, Ella. Beyond these letters, a patchwork of fascinating secondary sources is consulted to present a fuller picture of the Franz family history, which, in turn, gestures to cultural legacies of Mennonite migration to Canada and involvement in World War II more broadly. Set against the backdrop of the cataclysmic events of the Holocaust and Second World War, the love story of Ella and Johann is at once a fascinating historical account, a happy romance, and an earnest examination of what it’s like to strive for a future while struggling to cope with life as a refugee. Offering a fresh perspective on the layered and nuanced histories of the Holocaust, Mennonite culture, and love during wartime, Mutti and Papa is sure to interest history buffs and romantics alike.
Author : Fred Amram
Publisher : Holy Cow! Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0986448044
"Epic in scope, but gentle and charming in delivery, Fred Amram's We're in America Now is a quiet chronicle of a clamorous era. Politics and war compel Amram's family to leave the only home they ever knew and embark on a personal exodus, fleeing a new pharaoh, pursuing a new promised land. They arrive in America to discover that paradise is not all milk and honey, but love, loyalty, and faith conspire to hold the family together, and the story of how they rebuild the life that was robbed them is moving, probing, and insightful." —J.C. Hallman, author of B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal These compelling stories form a riveting memoir that begins with the author's birth during the rise of Hitler in 1930s Germany. He and his surviving family soon escape to Holland and sail to America where they encounter many challenges as immigrants in a new world. This country truly becomes a land of opportunity where one can build a new life and become more than a "Holocaust survivor." Fred Amram is a retired University of Minnesota professor of communication and creativity. He spent his early years in Hanover, Germany, where he experienced the Holocaust from its inception in 1933. He witnessed Kristallnacht and the Gestapo invading his home. He watched the British bombers from his balcony when Jews were banned from air raid shelters. The loss of uncles, aunts, a grandmother, and many more relatives has motivated him to share his experiences in hopes of ending genocide everywhere.
Author : Roisin Meaney
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529368243
'A gorgeous tale that will delight, charm and captivate the reader' Swirl and Thread 'Meaney leaves you wanting to know more about the characters and what they do next, almost as if they have become friends' Irish Independent When Emily's heart was broken by the love of her life, she never imagined that she would find herself, just two years later, running a small restaurant in what used to be her grandmother's tiny hat shop. The Food of Love offers diners the possibility of friendship (and maybe more) as well as a delicious meal. And even though Emily has sworn off romance forever, it doesn't stop her hoping for happiness for her regulars, like widower Bill who hides a troubling secret, single mum Heather who ran away from home as a teenager, and gentle Astrid whose past is darker than any of her friends know. Then, out of the blue, Emily receives a letter from her ex. He's returning home to Ireland and wants to see her. Is Emily brave enough to give love a second chance -- or wise enough to figure out where it's truly to be found? Fall in love with Roisin Meaney... 'A wonderful, warm novel which I couldn't put down. Tears of laughter and sadness abound' Women's Way
Author : Ilse Stritzke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1476601739
The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents. That decision cost her family dearly in wartorn Europe, 1945. Ilse grew up on a small farm, with a wonderful family, the woods as a playground and the beaches of the Baltic. Then turmoil followed the German defeat by the Russians and the subsequent occupation. In 31 months under the Russians, Ilse's family is driven from their home, she mourns her missing father, witnesses her mother's rape, sees her grandparents and baby brother succumb to the brutal conditions, and hears of her oldest sister's capture and death in a work prison. Fighting starvation, Ilse crafts ways to coexist with the Russians, scavenging, begging and stealing to help the family survive.
Author : Sarah McCoy
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307460207
In this New York Times bestseller, two women in different eras face similar life-altering decisions, the politics of exclusion, the terrible choices we face in wartime, and the redemptive power of love. In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie’s doorstep on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger. Sixty years later, in El Paso, Texas, Reba Adams is trying to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local magazine, and she sits down with the owner of Elsie's German Bakery for what she expects will be an easy interview. But Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story—a story that resonates with her own turbulent past. For Elsie, Reba’s questions are a stinging reminder of that last bleak year of World War II. As the two women's lives become intertwined, both are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.
Author : Lilo L. Cohn-Sharon
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9652296201
The first part of the book was published as "A Shadow over My Life" (Jerusalem: Gefen, 1994). Pt. 2 of the book (p. 59-115) contains poems by the author.
Author : E. R. Morris
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1039155332
In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry sardonic spin, often asking how they might change if they were set today. Threaded through these mature re-tellings is a constellation of fascinating historical information about their origins. Deftly weaving these facts in with these ironic re-tellings, Morris offers a truly unique collection sure to inspire laughter and eyebrow-raising for the grown-ups familiar with the originals, who might just learn something along the way, too.
Author : H. D. Stopschinski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1456848593
Written in two parts, A Family Chronicle tells of the episodes once forgotten but were brought back to light in the first part.The author reconstructs remembrances of his own childhood. The second part contains testimonies of his family members, who, like him, had to leave their hometown in 1945 when the Russian steamroller threatened to overrun his town. This memoir documents these events so that they may not be forgotten by the next generation. The cruelty of war and his terrible consequences is also given some thought.
