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Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his family's story—a family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the Brit...
Studie over de romans van de Engelse schrijver (geb. 1931)
The study of its literature is a useful guide to the degree of sexual security existing in a culture. ' When a future historian comes to treat of the social taboos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a fourteen-volume life-work, his theories of the existence of an enormous secret language of bawdry and an immense oral literature of obscene stories and rhymes known, in various degrees of initiation, to every man and woman in the country, yet never consigned to writing or openly admitted as existing, will be treated as a chimerical notion by the enlightened age in which he writes. ' If I were asked to name some characteristics typical of the mid-20th century, I would put first the unc...
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present
This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planck are among the great German theoretical physicists whose work and career are examined in this book. Physics was then the only natural science in which theoretical work developed into a major teaching and research specialty in its own right. Readers will discover how German physicists arrived at a well-defined field of theoretical physics with well understood and generally accepted goals and needs. The...
History of the Rieck, Oletzke, Neumann and related families originally of Prussia. Wilhelm Rieck (1842-1915), son of Johann Rieck and Marie Hamm, was born in Meiersberg, Prussia, and died in Albion, Minnesota. He was married to Elvine Oletzke (1843-1923), daughter of Friedrick Oletzke and Karoline Lorenz, in 1867. She was also born in Meiersberg. Wilhelm came to America in 1870. He and his wife had eight surviving children, who were born in Chicago, Illinois and Albion, Minnesota. Includes the family of Johann Rieck, brother of Wilhelm. He came to America in 1880 with his wife, Karoline Koeppen and their three children. These three children were already in their late teens and 20's. Descendants and family members live in Washington, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois and elsewhere.