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In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism

Annette Libeskind Berkovits

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Description for In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism Paperback. With just a box of tapes, Annette Libeskind Berkovits tells more than her father's story: she builds an uncommon family saga and reimagines a turbulent past. Num Pages: 396 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 202 x 39. Weight in Grams: 482.
Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapesaseveral years' worthawith his spectacular life, triumphs, and tragedies told one last time in his baritone voice. Nachman Libeskind's remarkable story is an odyssey through crucial events of the twentieth century. With an unshakable will and a few drops of luck, he survives a pre-war Polish prison; witnesses the 1939 Nazi invasion of Lodz and narrowly escapes; is imprisoned in a brutal Soviet gulag where ... Read more

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Paperback

Publication date

2016

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Condition

New

Number of Pages

296

Place of Publication

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

ISBN

9781771122481

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V9781771122481

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About Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Annette Libeskind Berkovits was born in Kyrgyzstan and grew up in postwar Poland and the fledgling state of Israel before coming to America at age sixteen. In her three-decade career with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, she spearheaded the institutionas nationwide and worldwide science education programs. Her achievements include the first-ever agreement to bring environmental education to Chinaas ... Read more

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This is a beautifully written saga of a Jewish family before, during and after World War II. The Holocaust must never be forgotten. The historical value of survivor testimonies is important to preserving the collective memory of humanity. Hanna Davidson Pankowsky, author of East of the Storm: Outrunning the Holocaust in Russia This is a book that works on ... Read moreso many levels: as the biography of a Polish Jew who narrowly escapes two murderous totalitarian systems, as a personal journey that leads to a new life in the United States marked by optimism and accomplishmentand, above all, as the beautiful, heartfelt tribute of a daughter to her remarkable father. Andrew Nagorski, author of Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (2012) ... Berkovits, Libeskinds daughter and the author of this cinematically gripping debut biography, does a masterful job weaving together a coherent narrative, culled largely from tape recordings that her father left behind. She has a rare gift for storytelling ... the prose is lively and direct, and the story is deeply affecting ... A moving tale thats emotionally powerful and historically edifying. Kirkus Reviews The deeper I went into In the Unlikeliest of Places the more I found my eyes tearing upnot from the suffering of victims of the Holocaust but from the beauty of the extraordinary courage and success of Nachman Libeskind. It is, of course, the success of a whole family, a whole people refusing to accept defeat, but its especially the defiance and joy in his spirit that is so moving. When he goes to Berlin to see the Jewish Museum, designed by his son, Daniel Libeskind, and when he takes up painting in his eighties, not as an old mans busywork but with craft, power, verve, and a brilliant sense of color and compositionthose victories moved me more than any recent book on the Holocaust and survival. That man! Youre going to love him and love the people who supported and believed in him, especially his wife Dora and his childrenAnnette and Danieland his grandchildren. John J. Clayton, author of Many Seconds into the Future (2014) and Mitzvah Man (2011) Annette Libeskind Berkovits's In The Unlikeliest of Places is an incandescent biographical tribute to the author's father, Nachman Libeskind, an eternally hopeful survivor.... Berkovits relates her father's story in elegant and shifting prose....Though this is, inescapably, a Holocaust survivor's biography, it is not dominated by those horrors; rather, it celebrates the ingenuity with which one man made his time less about enduring than about living vibrantly. In the Unlikeliest of Places honors the life of an artist, a father, and a survivor who maintained his sense of identity with gentility, despite the historical challenges he endured.
Michelle Anne Schingler
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