After Auschwitz : one man's story / / Hermann Gruenwald ; as told to Bryan Demchinsky

• Autore: Gruenwald Hermann
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/18092
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust survivors - Quebec (Province) - Montreal; Businessmen - Quebec (Province) - Montreal; Jews - Quebec (Province) - Montreal; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Clothing trade - Quebec (Province) - Montreal - History
• Soggetto geografico: Montréal (Québec) Biography
• Altri autori: DemchinskyBryan
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Prelude -- Preface -- On the Beach -- A Good Beginning -- Rohod -- The Day before Disaster -- Into the Whirlwind -- A Cook in Auschwitz -- Life and Death Go On -- Touching Bottom -- Picking Up the Pieces -- Making a Go of It -- Out of Europe -- Starting Over -- On My Own -- Adventures in the Garment Trade -- Fitting In and Branching Out -- The Real Estate Game -- The Big Time -- Taking Off in All Directions -- Almost Losing It -- All in the Family -- Return to Auschwitz -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century. He offers a vivid portrayal of growing up affluent and Jewish in class-conscious Hungary in the interwar period and of the initial promise and disillusioning reality of Hungarian communism.
• Titolo autorizzato: After Auschwitz
• ISBN: 9786612850301; 9780773577305; 0773577300; 9781282850309; 128285030X; 9780773560369; 077356036X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964563403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II