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English
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"During the opening months of World War II, Vassar-educated career woman Rulka Langer (1906-1993) risked her life and relied on her wits to keep her two small children and elderly mother out of harm's way. "The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt" is a rare eyewitness account of the early, chaotic days of WWII -- the Nazi German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the Siege of Warsaw and the first few months of the Occupation -- written by a young...
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Publisher
Southern Border Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
129 p. : ill.; ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Transcriptions of inteviews conducted by The Bracero Oral History Project. This project highlights the need for the gathering and preservation of structured as well as openended oral interviews, documentation and analysis. The preservation of existing documents, testimony, family correspondence, photos, and narratives are an invaluable research resource for future studies. Hence, the significance of Los Braceros: Memories of Bracero Workers 1942-1964...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe's Jews? Americans and the Holocaust explores these enduring questions by gathering together more than one hundred primary sources that reveal how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. Drawing on groundbreaking research conducted for the United...
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