ebooks Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R. Owen in History

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Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe; Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven; she had been deported; along with her mother; to Theresienstadt; the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York; has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.Interwoven with blunt; unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust; Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history; both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand; the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz; the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators; or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York; Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales.Still Alive is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds; a fiercely bittersweet coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions; but always to seek her own truth.