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Travel essays and memories from a Beat writer and close friend of Jack Kerouac, Author of "Go!"

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In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood -- one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream. Despite her hard life as a refugee, Ella finds solace in others and retains her indomitably inquisitive spirit. Throughout her ordeals, she never relinquishes hope or sight of her goal of education.Poignantly and freshly rendered, this is a tale of determination. It is the story of a girl caught up first in the maelstrom of World War II and then in the complexities of American southern culture, adjusting to events beyond her control with resiliency as she searches for faith, knowledge, and a place in the world.

Orlin was a volunteer for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at the displaced persons camp that had been a concentration camp under the Nazis. She assembled over a thousand photographs of Jews at the camp awaiting repatriation after the war. The album is now at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam, which jointly published the selection of images. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This volume, a collective study of the post-World War II Ukrainian emigrants in Germany and Austria, departs from the standard approach to immigration studies. Instead of focusing on the immigrants' adjustment to their host societies (the United States, Canada, Australia, the countries of Latin America and others), the approach in this volume assumes the primary importance of the pre-immigration experience. The twenty-five contributions to this book present a detailed analysis of the social conditions that shaped the Ukrainian displaced persons, with particular attention to the five-year period that many of them spent in internationally organized resettlement camps. The essays in this volume are grouped in nine sections covering the most important facets of the displaced persons' lives. These include an assessment of the DP phenomenon in the context of Ukrainian history; its demographic dimensions; an examination of the economic and organizational structure of the DP camps; the role of political parties and nationalist ideology; the activities of the Catholic and Orthodox churches; the establishment of schools and women's organizations; the proliferation of literary, cultural, and scholarly activity; Soviet efforts at repatriation and the Allied response; the resettlement of Ukrainians in the USA and Canada; and a sociological and psychological interpretation of the DP experience. Four contributions by eyewitnesses round out the volume. Contributors include Orest Subtelny, Danylo H. Struk, George Grabowicz, Lubomir Luciuk, and many others.

Beautiful Balts tells the extraordinary story of these people, tracing their journey from the often chaotic camps of Europe after World War II to a new life in a land of opportunity where prejudice, parochialism,and strident anti-communism were rife. Drawing from archives, oral history interviews and literature generated by the Displaced Persons themselves, Persian investigates who they really were, why Australia wanted them and what they experienced.

Canada was not in a welcoming mood when Ukrainian and other refugees began arriving in Canada after the second world war. In this book Lubomyr Luciuk delineates the efforts of the established Ukrainian-Canadian community to rescue and resettle Ukrainian refugees, despite the indifference and even hostility of the Canadian government. He shows how this triangular relationship coloured federal attitudes to both the resident old-guard Ukrainian population and the ancestral Ukrainian homeland.Luciuk draws on personal diaries and correspondence, over 300 in-depth interviews, and previously unmined government archives to interpret the meaning and value of the Ukrainian experience in Canada. Using a host of contextual sidelights to illuminate larger historical issues, Luciuk produces an account that is both scholarly and intimate. Above all, he reveals how the Ukrainian-Canadian identity has been manipulated, negotiated and recast during the 100 years of its existence.Treating matters that were virtually incendiary in their day, Luciuk tells his story with journalistic skill and a clear interpretive vision. "Searching for Place" is a thorough, meticulous and original contribution to the study of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.

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"Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."―M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa "This is a fascinating and very moving book."―International Migration Review "Wyman has written a highly readable account of the movement of diverse ethnic and cultural groups of Europe's displaced persons, 1945-1951. An analysis of the social, economic, and political circumstances within which relocation, resettlement, and repatriation of millions of people occurred, this study is equally a study in diplomacy, in international relations, and in social history.... A vivid and compassionate recreation of the events and circumstances within which displaced persons found themselves, of the strategies and means by which people survived or did not, and an account of the major powers in response to an unprecedented human crisis mark this as an important book."―Choice "Wyman interviewed some eighty DPs as well as employees of various agencies who served them; he cites a broad range of published primary sources, secondary sources, and some archival material.... This book presents a useful overview and should stimulate further research."―Journal of American Ethnic History

By the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Italy, and Austria. Yet many Jews did not know whether to return to their home countries or move on to someplace else. As a result, these stateless displaced persons (DPs) created a unique space for political, cultural, and social rebirth that was tempered by the complications of overcoming recent trauma. In "We Are Here," editors Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz present current research on DPs between the end of the war and the creation of the State of Israel in order to present a more complete and nuanced picture of the DP experience, challenging many earlier assumptions about this group.Contributors to this volume analyze art, music, and literature of the DPs, as well as historical records of specific DP communities to explore the first reactions of survivors to liberation and their understanding of place in the context of postwar Germany and in Europe more generally. A number of the contributions in this volume challenge prior interpretations of Jewish DPs and Holocaust survivors, including the supposedly unified background of the DP population, the notion of a general reluctance to confront the past, the idea of Zionism as an inevitable success after the war, and the suggestion that Jews, despite their presence in Germany, strenuously avoided contact with Germans. Far from constituting a monolithic whole, then, "We Are Here" demonstrates that the DPs were composed of diverse groups with disparate wartime experiences. Responding to burgeoning scholarship on DPs and related issues, "We Are Here" sifts through the copious records DPs left behind to shed light on the many facets of a vibrant DP society. Scholars of the Holocaust and all readers concerned with the Jewish experience immediately after World War II will be grateful for this volume.

The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought this dramatic episode top a close. Yet in September 1945, the number of displaced persons placed under the guardianship of Allied armies and relief agencies in occupied Germany amounted to 1.5 million. A costly burden for the occupying powers, the Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian, Yugoslav and Baltic DPs unwilling to return to their countries of origin presented a complex international problem. Massed in refugee camps stretched from Northern Germany to Sicily, the DPs had become long-term asylum seekers. Based on the records of the International Refugee Organization, this book describes how the European DP crisis impinged on the shape of the postwar order. The DP question directly affected the outbreak of the Cold War; the transformation of the "West" into a new geopolitical entity; the conduct of political purges and retribution; the ideology and methods of modern humanitarian interventions; the appearance of international agencies and non-governmental organizations; the emergence of an international human rights system; the organization of migration movements and the redistribution of "surplus populations"; the advent of Jewish nationhood; and postwar categorizations of political and humanitarian refugees.

By the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Italy, and Austria. Yet many Jews did not know whether to return to their home countries or move on to someplace else. As a result, these stateless displaced persons (DPs) created a unique space for political, cultural, and social rebirth that was tempered by the complications of overcoming recent trauma. In "We Are Here," editors Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz present current research on DPs between the end of the war and the creation of the State of Israel in order to present a more complete and nuanced picture of the DP experience, challenging many earlier assumptions about this group.Contributors to this volume analyze art, music, and literature of the DPs, as well as historical records of specific DP communities to explore the first reactions of survivors to liberation and their understanding of place in the context of postwar Germany and in Europe more generally. A number of the contributions in this volume challenge prior interpretations of Jewish DPs and Holocaust survivors, including the supposedly unified background of the DP population, the notion of a general reluctance to confront the past, the idea of Zionism as an inevitable success after the war, and the suggestion that Jews, despite their presence in Germany, strenuously avoided contact with Germans. Far from constituting a monolithic whole, then, "We Are Here" demonstrates that the DPs were composed of diverse groups with disparate wartime experiences. Responding to burgeoning scholarship on DPs and related issues, "We Are Here" sifts through the copious records DPs left behind to shed light on the many facets of a vibrant DP society. Scholars of the Holocaust and all readers concerned with the Jewish experience immediately after World War II will be grateful for this volume.

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Can You Imagine was written in response to the war in Afghanistan and to the many civilians, especially children, who become displaced persons. The...

This is Paul Bettig's personal story of his life's journey from birth and youth in the Ukraine under oppressive Russian and Polish rule, to the extrication of his entire family from Ukraine by the German Nazi Regime, to the insecure life in many displaced-persons camps in Germany proper and Germany's newly acquired Polish territory, to a purchased farm in Silesia, to survival in the Hitler Youth, to German military service as a sixteen year-old on the Russian front, to survival under Russian occupation, to finding his family again and escaping to West Germany, to being permanently separated from his family, and then to freedom in America. In each of these segments of his life Paul was faced with death many times, and each time his life was spared in remarkable instances. Paul's life is a true example of how the unseen guardian angels of our lives protect us from harm and death. This story is also a testament to Paul's Christian faith that carried him through his entire life. Paul's life story is told in his own personal conversational language that sometimes bridges Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and German.

Chronicles the author's experiences hiding from Nazis in the barn of Ukranian Christians, surviving displaced-persons camps, mastering the black market, and eventually succeeding as a businessman and father in Seattle.

Agony of Survival is a 1945 chronicle of a young lieutenant in the United States Army in postwar Germany. Caught in an emotional maelstrom of half-starved emaciated survivors of the concentration camps, he was charged with the responsibility for the care and repatriation of displaced persons in his area.

The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict.The book assesses key developments in 36 high-, medium- and low-intensity conflicts, including those in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Israel–Palestine, Southern Thailand, Colombia and Ukraine.The Armed Conflict Survey features essays by some of the world’s leading experts on armed conflict, including Mats Berdal, Elisabeth Jean Wood, Julia Bleckner, Nelly Lahoud, William Reno and Carrie Manning. They write on:· UN peacekeeping;· conflict-related sexual violence;· the Islamic State’s shifting narrative;· the changing foundations of governance by armed groups; and· rebel-to-party transitions.The authors’ discussion of principal thematic and cross-national trends complements the detailed analysis of each conflict at the core of the book.The Armed Conflict Survey also includes maps, infographics and multi-year data, as well as the IISS Chart of Conflict.

XLII, 536 pp., 10 fig. col., 60 fig. b/w. A perfect copy. - Summary: As World War II ended, refugees fled Soviet-occupied Lithuania, finding shelter in the displaced persons camps of Europe. By 1949, most had emigrated to North America. They brought with them opposing narratives about the Nazi occupation (19411944) when 95 percent of Lithuania's Jewish community was annihilated. Trauma narratives were passed down to the second and third generations through collective memory. Through postmemory, cultural memory, and trauma theory, Vanished Lands analyzes literary works by North American Jewish and Lithuanian writers who speak over the silence of decades, seeking answers. - Contents: Foreword: A Historian's Look at Memory and Its Discontents by Dr. Saulius Suziedelis -- Foreword: Towards a Common Understanding by Dr. Dalia Leinarte -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- IntroductionAn Ocean Away and a Century in the Past -- Chapter 1 The Literary Works and Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2 The Holocaust by Bullets in Lithuania -- Chapter 3 Lithuania's Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance -- Chapter 4 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Migration from Lithuania to North America -- Chapter 5 The Role of Lithuanian Émigré Writers in Shaping the Next Generation -- Chapter 6 Two Interpretations-Two Continents: Algirdas Landsbergis, Five Posts in a Market Place -- Chapter 7 Expressions of Cultural Memory in Two Lithuanian Diaspora Memoirs: Antanas Sileika, The Barefoot Bingo Caller and Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep -- Chapter 8 Catharsis Through Memory: Samuel Bak, Painted in Words-A Memoir -- Chapter 9 Postmemory as Historical Reckoning: Rita Gabis, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet and Julija ukys, Siberian Exile -- Chapter 10 Yiddish as Postmemory Portal: Ellen Cassedy, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust -- Chapter 11 Postmemory and Historical Accuracy - Conclusion. ISBN 9781803740256 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 820

Bak (b.1933), a painter who lives in Massachusetts, arrived there by way of Vilna, Poland (where he was born), time spent at displaced persons camps in Germany, then residency in Israel, Rome, New York City, Paris, and Switzerland. This volume presents a new series of 55 drawings and paintings in which he presents his own powerful visions of scriptural stories in the context of the post-Holocaust world. Langer, who has written a number of books on the Holocaust and a previous book on Bak's work ( Landscapes of Jewish Experience , here provides full explication of the paintings. Distribution is by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)