Birnbaum's Europe, 1995
Birnbaum's Europe, 1995

Author: Alexandra Mayes Birnbaum

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 1924

ISBN-13: 9780062781888

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The best travel information for the favorite destinations, Birnbaum's guides provide everything travelers need to know for planning and enjoying their European vacations. Includes spectacular driving routes and detailed guides to the cities most often visited.

I Kept My Promise
I Kept My Promise

Author: Jacob Birnbaum

Publisher: Jason R. Taylor Associates

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0930622057

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Memoirs of Birnbaum (b. 1922), a Polish Jew who lived in Piotrków Trybunalski and in Dąbrowa Gornicza. In 1942 he was sent to the Anhalt labor camp near Auschwitz, and then to five other labor camps: Markstadt, Ludwigsdorf (a munitions factory), Graditz, Langenbielau, and Faulbrück. At the last two camps he was sent to work in a parachute factory. There, he was sentenced to death by a German civil court for arson, but the SS claimed jurisdiction over him because he was a number and not a person, thereby saving him. He was liberated by the Russians in May 1945 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. An appendix on pp. 153-174 relates the fate of the Piotrkow Jews in the Holocaust.

The Written Image
The Written Image

Author: Miyeko Murase

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1588390683

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This lovely catalog accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2002-2003. The exhibition features Japanese calligraphy and paintings and sculpture of Buddhist and Shinto themes. Full descriptive entries accompany the plates of each work. Three essays introduce the catalog: a history of the collection and an essay on viewing calligraphy by Barnet and Burto, and an introduction to the calligraphy in their collection by Murase (a consultant on Japanese art at the museum). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR