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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820251603321

Autore

Zarnowitz Victor <1919-2009.>

Titolo

Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world : my life and times / / Victor Zarnowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2008

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-65184-7

1-282-56596-6

9786612565960

0-313-35779-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

330.092

B

Soggetti

Economists - United States

Holocaust survivors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: a vanished world -- And music was in the air -- The saddest thing -- 17 days -- The Gulag -- Love in Ili -- From the ashes -- The Association of Jewish Students -- Our American education -- My American century -- Peaks and valleys -- Epilogue: an octogenarian in a new millennium.

Sommario/riassunto

Victor Zarnowitz is a world-famous economist. Victor Zarnowitz is also a man who grew up in the Polish town of Oswiecim, known in German as Auschwitz. Zarnowitz and his brother fled the area as the Nazis advanced in September 1939. Moving eastward, he landed right in the arms of the Soviets and was sent to a Siberian Gulag. How did this brilliant young man, who nearly died at the hands of the Soviets, end up a renowned University of Chicago economist? That's exactly what this inspiring, lyrical memoirÑtold in simple, captivating proseÑis all about.||The recipient of many prizes and honors, Zar