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



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Autore: Zarnowitz Victor <1919-2009.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world : my life and times / / Victor Zarnowitz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2008
New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
Disciplina: 330.092
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Soggetto topico: Economists - United States
Holocaust survivors - United States
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
Titolo autorizzato: Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Gulag, and arriving in the free world  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-84-00-65184-7
1-282-56596-6
9786612565960
0-313-35779-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820251603321
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