LEADER 03005nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910778528503321 005 20090226085050.0 010 $a979-84-00-65184-7 010 $a1-282-56596-6 010 $a9786612565960 010 $a0-313-35779-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400651847 035 $a(CKB)1000000000821190 035 $a(EBL)495270 035 $a(OCoLC)656857640 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000376281 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376281 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333130 035 $a(PQKB)11389237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL495270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271308 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL256596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC495270 035 $a(OCoLC)223107705 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400651847BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000821190 100 $a20080411e20082024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world$b[electronic resource] $emy life and times /$fVictor Zarnowitz 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger Publishers,$d2008. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-313-35778-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index. 327 $aPrologue: 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. 330 $aVictor 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 memoirN?told in simple, captivating proseN?is all about.||The recipient of many prizes and honors, Zar 606 $aEconomists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHolocaust survivors$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aEconomists 615 0$aHolocaust survivors 676 $a330.092 676 $aB 700 $aZarnowitz$b Victor$f1919-2009.$0118949 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bBTCTA 801 2$bBAKER 801 2$bYDXCP 801 2$bUKM 801 2$bC#P 801 2$bBWX 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778528503321 996 $aFleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world$93696894 997 $aUNINA