Lifesaving Letters
Lifesaving Letters

Author: Milena Roth

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780295983776

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Ch. 3 (pp. 26-98), "The Letters, " contains letters written by the author's mother, Anna Roth, between September 1930-July 1942. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia Anna and Emil Roth, who lived in Prague, decided to send their six-year-old daughter on a Kindertransport to friends in England, hoping to follow. Anna's letters describe, inter alia, their futile attempts to emigrate. In July 1943 they were sent to Theresienstadt; in September 1943 they were sent to Auschwitz, where they perished. Further information on their fate is dispersed throughout the remainder of the book.

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves

Author: James Lecesne

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0545502209

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Life-saving letters from a glittering wishlist of top authors. If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say?That the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant that you won't remember his name until he shows up at your book signing?In this anthology, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgendered people. Through stories, in pictures, with bracing honesty, these are words of love and understanding, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.

Under Swiss Protection
Under Swiss Protection

Author: Agnes Schallié, Charlotte Hirschi

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 3838210891

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This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It is estimated that Lutz and his team of rescuers issued more than 50,000 lifesaving letters of protection (Schutzbriefe) and placed persecuted Jews in 76 safe houses—annexes of the Swiss Legation. Based on interviews with Holocaust survivors in Canada, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States, this volume shines a light on the extraordinary scope and scale of Carl Lutz’s humanitarian response.

Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Letters to a Young Brown Girl

Author: Barbara Jane Reyes

Publisher: American Poets Continuum

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781950774173

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Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

Letters to Jane
Letters to Jane

Author: Hayden Carruth

Publisher: Ausable Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781931337175

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Hayden Carruth's letters to Jane Kenyon between April, 1994 and April, 1995, the year she was dying.

Journeys from the Abyss
Journeys from the Abyss

Author: Tony Kushner

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1786948346

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This is the first study to place Jewish refugee movements from Nazism into a wider framework of global forced migration from the late nineteenth through to the twenty first century.