Memoir books from Romania
Recommended memoir books (8)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Romania for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Burying the Typewriter : A Memoir by Carmen Bugan EN
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Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital a... continue
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Dicționar de lagăr by Oliver Lustig RO
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A personal testimony of life and death in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps (Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, etc.) in the form of a dictionary of terms specific to the camps and the mass murder of the Jews. also recalls Jewish attempts to resist, such as the Sonderkommando revolt in Birkenau in 1944.
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Die Nacht : Erinnerung und Zeugnis by Elie Wiesel DE
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Atemlos, bewusst karg im Stil erzählt der Friedensnobelpreisträger seine Erfahrung als Kind in Auschwitz. Jede Zeile spricht uns unmittelbar an.
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Night by Elie Wiesel EN
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Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Night by Elie Weisel EN
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A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much... continue
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Under a Red Sky : Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar EN
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The author shares her early memories of being a Jewish child living in postwar Bucharest, Romania, and the eccentric and opinionated adults who surrounded her and who would do anything to keep her safe while living in this communist country.