Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924)

Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924)

Author: Irene Rochas

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0578149168

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Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924). Expanded second edition with additional photographs. Irene Rochas was born Aniela Tarnowicz in Warsaw in 1906, the youngest child in a large upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of WW I in 1914, Irene and her family were stranded in Moscow, and with the further outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, they were able to return to their homeland only after a delay of four years. Irene's rediscovered narrative -- written when she was fifty years old and set in the form of a novel -- is a remembrance of those eventful years of her childhood in Moscow and Warsaw. In this sense, it is truly a "memoir". Yes, "danse macabre" is the dance of death, the last waltz to which we are all invited. But Irene's "Danse Macabre" -- with its inquisitive and empathetic tone... and its often searing imagery -- is less a rumination on the inevitability of death and more a testament to the vibrancy of life itself. [345 pp., Endnote, 29 plates]


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Download or read book Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924) written by Irene Rochas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924). Expanded second edition with additional photographs. Irene Rochas was born Aniela Tarnowicz in Warsaw in 1906, the youngest child in a large upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of WW I in 1914, Irene and her family were stranded in Moscow, and with the further outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, they were able to return to their homeland only after a delay of four years. Irene's rediscovered narrative -- written when she was fifty years old and set in the form of a novel -- is a remembrance of those eventful years of her childhood in Moscow and Warsaw. In this sense, it is truly a "memoir". Yes, "danse macabre" is the dance of death, the last waltz to which we are all invited. But Irene's "Danse Macabre" -- with its inquisitive and empathetic tone... and its often searing imagery -- is less a rumination on the inevitability of death and more a testament to the vibrancy of life itself. [345 pp., Endnote, 29 plates]

Testament to Norbert Barlicki (1880-1941)

Testament to Norbert Barlicki (1880-1941)

Author: Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1387716999

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Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka was born in Warsaw in 1894, one of eight children in a large, traditional upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of WWI in 1914, the family found itself stranded in Moscow, and with the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, they did not return to Poland until 1918. Helena relentlessly pursued her dream of becoming a physician. She started her studies in Moscow in 1917, but it was not until 1925 in Warsaw that she finally graduated. The most important person in her life outside of her family was Norbert Barlicki, the Polish publicist, lawyer and politician of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) who was executed by the Germans during the Second World War. The testament by Helena is brief but evocative. It speaks for itself. It gives us insight into the character and mindset of Norbert Barlicki, but even more so, insight into what an extraordinary individual was Helena herself. Paperback, Illustr., 52 pp. with facsimile of original manuscript (in Polish).


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Download or read book Testament to Norbert Barlicki (1880-1941) written by Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Tarnowicz-Barlicka was born in Warsaw in 1894, one of eight children in a large, traditional upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of WWI in 1914, the family found itself stranded in Moscow, and with the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, they did not return to Poland until 1918. Helena relentlessly pursued her dream of becoming a physician. She started her studies in Moscow in 1917, but it was not until 1925 in Warsaw that she finally graduated. The most important person in her life outside of her family was Norbert Barlicki, the Polish publicist, lawyer and politician of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) who was executed by the Germans during the Second World War. The testament by Helena is brief but evocative. It speaks for itself. It gives us insight into the character and mindset of Norbert Barlicki, but even more so, insight into what an extraordinary individual was Helena herself. Paperback, Illustr., 52 pp. with facsimile of original manuscript (in Polish).

Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre

Author: Aniela Tarnowicz

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-10

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781979474962

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Danse macabre: Wspomnienia polskiej dziewczyny z czasu rewolucji rosyjskiej (1914/24) - This is the Polish language version (wersja polska) of: "Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924)" by Irene Rochas, pseudonym of Aniela Tarnowicz.Irena Rochas urodziła sie jako Aniela Tarnowicz w Warszawie w 1906 roku i była najmłodszym dzieckiem w duzej, tradycyjnej polskiej rodzinie wyzszej klasy sredniej. Wybuch w 1914 roku I wojny swiatowej zastał Irene i jej rodzine w Moskwie, a pózniejszy wybuch rewolucji bolszewickiej uniemozliwił im powrót do ojczyzny przez nastepne cztery lata.Pomimo nieprzerwanej serii tragicznych wydarzen w rodzinie - które wydarzyły sie po powrocie do Polski - Irena tkwiła w swej determinacji zrobienia kariery teatralnej. Została przyjeta do szkoły aktorskiej w Warszawie i rozpoczeła znakomicie zapowiadajaca sie kariere aktorska. Jej kariera była niestety krótka. Wyszła za maz, urodziła dzieci i w wyniku wybuchu kolejnej wojny, niespodziewanie w 1940 roku znalazła sie w Ameryce. Narracja Ireny - napisana w wieku piecdziesieciu lat i utrzymana w formie powiesci - to wspomnienie tych burzliwych lat jej dziecinstwa w Moskwie i w Warszawie. W tym sensie jest to klasyczny pamietnik"; ale jak szybko czytelnik sie przekona, jest równiez czyms w wiele wiecej.Wprawdzie danse macabre" jest tancem smierci, ostatnim walcem, do którego wszyscy jestesmy zaproszeni. Ale Danse Macabre" Ireny - ze swym interesujacym, empatycznym tonem i wywierajaca głebokie wrazenie obrazowoscia - jest mniej nastawiony na przezywanie nieuchronnosci smierci, a bardziej na afirmacje bogactwa zycia.


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Download or read book Danse Macabre written by Aniela Tarnowicz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danse macabre: Wspomnienia polskiej dziewczyny z czasu rewolucji rosyjskiej (1914/24) - This is the Polish language version (wersja polska) of: "Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924)" by Irene Rochas, pseudonym of Aniela Tarnowicz.Irena Rochas urodziła sie jako Aniela Tarnowicz w Warszawie w 1906 roku i była najmłodszym dzieckiem w duzej, tradycyjnej polskiej rodzinie wyzszej klasy sredniej. Wybuch w 1914 roku I wojny swiatowej zastał Irene i jej rodzine w Moskwie, a pózniejszy wybuch rewolucji bolszewickiej uniemozliwił im powrót do ojczyzny przez nastepne cztery lata.Pomimo nieprzerwanej serii tragicznych wydarzen w rodzinie - które wydarzyły sie po powrocie do Polski - Irena tkwiła w swej determinacji zrobienia kariery teatralnej. Została przyjeta do szkoły aktorskiej w Warszawie i rozpoczeła znakomicie zapowiadajaca sie kariere aktorska. Jej kariera była niestety krótka. Wyszła za maz, urodziła dzieci i w wyniku wybuchu kolejnej wojny, niespodziewanie w 1940 roku znalazła sie w Ameryce. Narracja Ireny - napisana w wieku piecdziesieciu lat i utrzymana w formie powiesci - to wspomnienie tych burzliwych lat jej dziecinstwa w Moskwie i w Warszawie. W tym sensie jest to klasyczny pamietnik"; ale jak szybko czytelnik sie przekona, jest równiez czyms w wiele wiecej.Wprawdzie danse macabre" jest tancem smierci, ostatnim walcem, do którego wszyscy jestesmy zaproszeni. Ale Danse Macabre" Ireny - ze swym interesujacym, empatycznym tonem i wywierajaca głebokie wrazenie obrazowoscia - jest mniej nastawiony na przezywanie nieuchronnosci smierci, a bardziej na afirmacje bogactwa zycia.

Beyond the Uprising

Beyond the Uprising

Author: Cynthia Grant Bowman

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2008-03-12

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1469103699

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Cynthia Grant Bowman is a professor of law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. She met the subject of this biography, Maria Chudzinski, while teaching at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, where Maria worked in the international section of the law library. Maria was born in Poland before the German invasion and the Second World War and joined the underground resistance, or Home Army, as a teenager. She fought during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was taken prisoner by the Germans when the city fell. In 1945 Maria moved to England, where she was a member of the Polish Air Force, ultimately settling in Chicago in 1952. She has been very active in the Polish-American community in Chicago since that time. Intrigued by Marias past, Professor Bowman asked her to tell her story. This book is the result.


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Download or read book Beyond the Uprising written by Cynthia Grant Bowman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Grant Bowman is a professor of law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. She met the subject of this biography, Maria Chudzinski, while teaching at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, where Maria worked in the international section of the law library. Maria was born in Poland before the German invasion and the Second World War and joined the underground resistance, or Home Army, as a teenager. She fought during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was taken prisoner by the Germans when the city fell. In 1945 Maria moved to England, where she was a member of the Polish Air Force, ultimately settling in Chicago in 1952. She has been very active in the Polish-American community in Chicago since that time. Intrigued by Marias past, Professor Bowman asked her to tell her story. This book is the result.

Yashka: My Life as a Peasant, Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in Ww1, and the Bolshevik Revolution

Yashka: My Life as a Peasant, Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in Ww1, and the Bolshevik Revolution

Author: Maria Botchkareva

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780359022670

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Yashka is the autobiography of Maria Botchkareva, a young Russian woman who bravely took up arms first against the Germans in World War One, and then opposed the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maria describes a hard upbringing as a member of the Russian peasantry. Married at sixteen to her first husband Afanasy, it wasn't long before his charms were replaced by physical abuse; Maria soon fled. She applied for work as a servant girl, only to discover that the man advertising actually owned a string of brothels; she was promptly sent to the town of Sretensk to work in one. Such harsh experiences in youth nevertheless built a certain determination and toughness in the young Maria. When war broke out in 1914, she applied to join as a soldier - facing verbal abuse and sexual harassment from the outset, she nevertheless took to military life with eagerness and courage. The soldiers nicknamed her 'Yashka', and a measure of respect was slowly gained as she demonstrated great bravery.


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Download or read book Yashka: My Life as a Peasant, Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in Ww1, and the Bolshevik Revolution written by Maria Botchkareva and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yashka is the autobiography of Maria Botchkareva, a young Russian woman who bravely took up arms first against the Germans in World War One, and then opposed the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maria describes a hard upbringing as a member of the Russian peasantry. Married at sixteen to her first husband Afanasy, it wasn't long before his charms were replaced by physical abuse; Maria soon fled. She applied for work as a servant girl, only to discover that the man advertising actually owned a string of brothels; she was promptly sent to the town of Sretensk to work in one. Such harsh experiences in youth nevertheless built a certain determination and toughness in the young Maria. When war broke out in 1914, she applied to join as a soldier - facing verbal abuse and sexual harassment from the outset, she nevertheless took to military life with eagerness and courage. The soldiers nicknamed her 'Yashka', and a measure of respect was slowly gained as she demonstrated great bravery.

The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution

The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution

Author: Alice Stone Blackwell

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781289527518

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.


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Download or read book The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution written by Alice Stone Blackwell and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

Author: Włodzimierz Borodziej

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108944884

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Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.


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Download or read book Forgotten Wars written by Włodzimierz Borodziej and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.

Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941

Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941

Author: J. Burds

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1137388404

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In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.


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Download or read book Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941 written by J. Burds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.

Postwar

Postwar

Author: Tony Judt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-09-05

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9780143037750

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.


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Download or read book Postwar written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Nazi Impact on a German Village

The Nazi Impact on a German Village

Author: Walter Rinderle

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 081314888X

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Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed. This work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Oberschopfheim, a small, rural, overwhelmingly Catholic village in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany. This incisively written book raises fundamental questions about the nature of the Third Reich. The authors portray the Nazi regime as considerably less "totalitarian" than is commonly assumed, hardly an exemplar of the efficiency for which Germany is known, and neither revered nor condemned by most of its inhabitants. The authors suggest that Oberschopfheim merely accepted Nazi rule with the same resignation with which so many ordinary people have regarded their governments throughout history. Based on village and county records and on the direct testimony of Oberschopfheimers, this book will interest anyone concerned with contemporary Germany as a growing economic power and will appeal to the descendants of German immigrants to the United States because of its depiction of several generations of life in a German village.


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Download or read book The Nazi Impact on a German Village written by Walter Rinderle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed. This work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Oberschopfheim, a small, rural, overwhelmingly Catholic village in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany. This incisively written book raises fundamental questions about the nature of the Third Reich. The authors portray the Nazi regime as considerably less "totalitarian" than is commonly assumed, hardly an exemplar of the efficiency for which Germany is known, and neither revered nor condemned by most of its inhabitants. The authors suggest that Oberschopfheim merely accepted Nazi rule with the same resignation with which so many ordinary people have regarded their governments throughout history. Based on village and county records and on the direct testimony of Oberschopfheimers, this book will interest anyone concerned with contemporary Germany as a growing economic power and will appeal to the descendants of German immigrants to the United States because of its depiction of several generations of life in a German village.