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

• Autore: Gruenwald Hermann
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/18092
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust survivors - Québec (Province) - Montréal; Businessmen - Québec (Province) - Montréal; Jews - Québec (Province) - Montréal; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Clothing trade - Québec (Province) - Montréal - 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: 0-7735-7730-0; 1-282-85030-X; 9786612850301; 0-7735-6036-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780910203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II