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1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Figures; Who's Who; Introduction; PART ONE: ARIELA'S LIFE; Born In The Ghetto; To The Orphanage; Mama Julia; Liberation; Our Scattered Family; Rescuing Lost Children; Restaurants; Uncle Naum, Aunt Lily And Anya; Madames Kupritz And Tsitses; School; A Funeral; Our New Nanny Onute; The Fur Coat; Yadviga Vikentievna And Nina Rachkovskaya; Our Yard; The Black Staircase; Summer Holidays; Aunt Lily And Uncle Naum Return; Special Occasions; Mother, Father And Leaving Home; Discharged And Expelled; The Bakulev Heart Institute; Paris; Hammersmith Hospital. |
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Disasters StrikeThe Novi Cabaret; Do I Stay or Go?; Back In The USSR; Kaunas And Moscow; Kitty; Returning To Paris; The Loeb Twins; Andrei; Adventures With Andrei; Returning To Palanga; A Sitting Tenant; Birthdays And Goodbye; PART TWO: MEMORIES OF ARIELA; Kama Ginkas: I Too Was Born In The Ghetto; Solomon Abramovich: Sister Ariela; Alla Demidova: I'm Still Expecting Her Phone Call; Alexander And Lilia Mitta: Ariela As We Remember Her; Yulii Gustman: Ariela -- A Name That Means Lioness; Makvala Kasrashvili: A Kind Heart Is A Gift From God; Nelly Belskaya: The 'Blue Disease' |
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Sergie Nikolaevich: A Present From ArielaOlga Yakovleva: Our Distant Youth; Andrei Yakhontov: They Were An Impressive Couple; Karen Shakhnazarov: Recalling Ariela Sef; Ksenia Muratova: Ariela, Dear Heart; Svetlana And Vitalii Ignatenko: We Remember Her; APPENDIX 1; INDEX. |
| Summary |
This book is for all lovers of autobiography, history, and those interested in personal accounts of World War II. It is a personal testimony and a family saga played out against a background of some of the most momentous historical events of the 20th century. A novelist inventing a heroine would have been unlikely to come up with a more dramatic and gripping plot than that of Ariela Abramovich Sef's life story. Ariela's life was shaped both by difficult circumstances and her triumphs in overcoming them. Ariela brings these events to life as she narrates her gripping stories of survival in the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Soviet Union -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Judelson, Kathrine.
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Abramovich, Solomon.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sef, Ariela Abramovich. Born in the Ghetto : my triumph over adversity. Middlesex, England ; Portland, Oregon : Gainsborough House Press, c2014 ix, 239 pages 9781909719002 |
| ISBN |
9781909719033 (electronic book) |
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190971903X (electronic book) |
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9781909719002 |
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9781909719019 |
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