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Max Michelson: City of Life, City of dying.


Memories of Riga. From the American

Rita Herkenrath. Book series: Haland & Wirth /
Psycho-Social

Verlag, Giessen. 238 pages, ISBN-13: 9,783,898,065,573th € 22.90.

Publisher Info:

Max Michelson told from the perspective of survivors, the moving and shocking story of his Family during the Soviet and German occupation of Latvia and the Holocaust. Raised in a wealthy family in Riga, he lived in 1940 at age 15, the annexation of Latvia by the USSR with its nationalization policy and the Stalin terror. In 1941 the family was torn apart by the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Michelson lost his entire family by the Nazi atrocities and witnessed the inhumanity of genocide and war. His records, both for historians of the Holocaust and Eastern European history and for the general reader interest.

from the content:

Part One: My Jewish childhood - Latvia during the pre-war

1 My family
2 Grandma Emma
3 The Jewish society
4 My father

5 My mother and our home

6 grandmother Sophie and Griliches family

7 Sylvia 8 My aunts and uncles 9 Thea, Arthur and Manfred Peter
10 Summer in Jurmala 11 My school 12 The Soviet occupation of Latvia
Part Two: The War and the postwar years

13 Germany attacks the Soviet Union
14 The Nazis Riga
occupy 15 The Riga Ghetto
16 The Action: The destruction of the Riga ghetto
17 The Little Ghetto
18 KZ Kaiserwald
19 Stutthof
20 Polte-Werke Magdeburg
21 The exemption
22 Another man 23 On the search for relatives 24 A new beginning in the New World
25 A new life