czechoslovakia

Type: 
Topical Term
Subfield: 
z
Alias: 
czechoslovakia

A velvet revolution

V?clav Havel and the fall of communism
2006
Profiles the life of Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech republic from 1992 to 2002, and chronicles his childhood growing up under Nazi occupation and then under the control of the Soviet Union, and his political activism against the totalitarian regime.

Master of spies

the memoirs of General Frantisek Moravec
1975

Letters to Olga

June 1979-September 1982
1988

Theresienstadt

Hitler's gift to the Jews
1991
Recounts Troller's two years in Hitler's "model" ghetto and includes many of his drawings revealing the horrors of life there.

The golem

a version
1996
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

The night spies

2003
Presents a fact-based story in which Gabi and her young cousin Max, hiding in a hayloft to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II, begin taking late-night excursions into the nearby woods and come across information that leads to their involvement with the anti-Nazi partisan soldiers.

Torn thread

2000
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.

I am a star--child of the Holocaust

1986
The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - czechoslovakia