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The people on the beach : journeys to freedom after the holocaust / Rosie Whitehouse.

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Summary: Vividly traces the paths of Holocaust survivors who risked everything again to make a new life in Palestine.
Format: Online resource
Author/Creator: Whitehouse, Rosie, author.
Published: London : Hurst & Company, 2020
Locale: Italy
Contents: Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Out of the East
1. Rivne: Bandera's Victory
2. Auschwitz: Who Is For Life?
3. Vilnius: Harmatz's Choice
4. Poland: The Homecoming
5. Bucharest: An Eye for an Eye
6. Tarvisio: The Gateway to Zion
Germany
7. Dachau: Human Debris
8. St Ottilien: The Doctor and His Patients
9. Landsberg: The Town Where Nothing Happened
10. Munich: The Survivors' Passover
Italy
11. Milan: Peddling History
12. Selvino: The Most Vulnerable People in the World 13. Fiesole: The Lost Boys of the Bencista
14. Santa Maria di Bagni: Time to Breathe
15. Magenta: The Secret Camp
16. New York: F***B Shipping
17. La Spezia: Move Over Paul Newman
18. Haifa: The People's Trafalgar
19. Tel Aviv: Only Yesterday
List of the People on the Beach
Note on Sources
Notes: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Out of the East -- 1. Rivne: Bandera's Victory -- 2. Auschwitz: Who Is For Life? -- 3. Vilnius: Harmatz's Choice -- 4. Poland: The Homecoming -- 5. Bucharest: An Eye for an Eye -- 6. Tarvisio: The Gateway to Zion -- Germany -- 7. Dachau: Human Debris -- 8. St Ottilien: The Doctor and His Patients -- 9. Landsberg: The Town Where Nothing Happened -- 10. Munich: The Survivors' Passover -- Italy -- 11. Milan: Peddling History -- 12. Selvino: The Most Vulnerable People in the World

13. Fiesole: The Lost Boys of the Bencista -- 14. Santa Maria di Bagni: Time to Breathe -- 15. Magenta: The Secret Camp -- 16. New York: F***B Shipping -- 17. La Spezia: Move Over Paul Newman -- 18. Haifa: The People's Trafalgar -- 19. Tel Aviv: Only Yesterday -- List of the People on the Beach -- Note on Sources

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Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: EBSCOhost
ISBN: 9781787385207
1787385205
9781787385214
1787385213
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 294 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust survivors--Biography. Holocaust survivors--Italy. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy. Jewish families--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Italy. Holocaust survivors. Jewish families. Italy. Electronic books. Biographies. History.

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