03037nam 2200733 a 450 991082025160332120090226085050.0979-84-00-65184-71-282-56596-697866125659600-313-35779-X10.5040/9798400651847(CKB)1000000000821190(EBL)495270(OCoLC)656857640(SSID)ssj0000376281(PQKBManifestationID)11234247(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376281(PQKBWorkID)10333130(PQKB)11389237(Au-PeEL)EBL495270(CaPaEBR)ebr10271308(CaONFJC)MIL256596(OCoLC)223107705(DLC)BP9798400651847BC(MiAaPQ)EBC495270(EXLCZ)99100000000082119020080411e20082024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world my life and times /Victor Zarnowitz1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger Publishers,2008.New York :Bloomsbury Publishing (US),2024.1 online resource (196 p.)Description based upon print version of record.979-82-16-08507-2 0-313-35778-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index.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.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, ZarEconomistsUnited StatesBiographyHolocaust survivorsUnited StatesBiographyEconomistsHolocaust survivors330.092BZarnowitz Victor1919-2009.118949DLCDLCBTCTABAKERYDXCPUKMC#PBWXDLCBOOK9910820251603321Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world4110647UNINA