City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga. This item is unavailable.
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Language: English
Published by Univ Pr of Colorado, 2001
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- Title
- City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga
- Author
- Michelson, Max
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Colorado
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087081642X
- ISBN 13
- 9780870816420
This is a stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45) at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalised, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family.
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About the Author
Max Michelson, a retired engineer, is married and lives in Framingham, Massachusetts. With his wife Julia, he has raised two sons, and Max regards his three grandchildren as the best thing that has ever happened to him.
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