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Der Maler Rudolf Levy (1875-1944) war eine zentrale Figur der Münchner und Pariser Avantgarde und feierte mit seinen farbkräftigen Bildnissen, Landschaften und Stillleben auch im Berlin der 1920er-Jahre große Erfolge, unter anderem in der legendären Flechtheim-Galerie. Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten führte zu einem jähen Karriereende. Nach einer Flucht-Odyssee konnte Levy sich schließlich in Florenz niederlassen, wo sein Schaffen bis zur Deportation und Ermordung im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz einen letzten eindrucksvollen Höhepunkt erlebte. Als erstes deutsches Ausstellungshaus widmet sich das Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern in einer Retrospektive nun Werk und Leben von Rudolf Levy. Der Katalog öffnet den Blick auf einen Künstler europäischen Ranges, dessen reiche Bildwelt immer wieder neu zu entdecken ist. Beiträge namhafter Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten Levys Schicksal als verfolgter Künstler und als verfolgter Jude, das künstlerische Kaleidoskop seiner Zeit, die Jahre im Florentiner Exil sowie die Rezeption und Re-Kanonisierung seiner Kunst in der jungen Bundesrepublik. Wiederentdeckung eines großen Klassikers der Moderne anlässlich einer ersten Retrospektive in Deutschland - Internationales Kooperationsprojekt mit den Uffizien in Florenz Standardwerk zu Rudolf Levy in deutscher Sprache Mit einem zeitgenössischen Kunst- und Wortbeitrag von Edmund de Waal Ausstellung, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 28. Oktober 2023 bis 11. Februar 2024 (Schirmherrschaft Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier)

Osh Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan is the governing body of the Osh regional party organization that existed in 1939-1991.Osh Oblast was formed on November 21, 1939 from the Osh District of the Kyrgyz SSR. It was the only oblast (and regional party organization) in Kyrgyzstan which was not abolished during the administrative reforms of 1959-1962.The role of the party organization in the management of the state and state institutions is that the most responsible comrades from the party organizations of the region were nominated to the corresponding state positions and they had to report to their comrades about their work from time to time while performing state duties and had to bear the party responsibility for blunders in work or poor work. that is, their party organization could point out the blunders in a disciplinary procedure, to reprimand for failure of work.

El diario de Ana Frank ha sido, desde su primera publicación, una lectura increible para todo aquel que quiera revisitar aquellos años de horror vividos y sufridos por el pueblo judío. Su lectura representa, no sólo el respeto por aquello que fue sino, sobre todo, por aquello que no queremos que se vuelva a repetir. Quizá por eso, aquellos manuscritos lograron sobrevivir al horror, a pesar de que la niña que los escribió no pudo lograrlo. Esos escritos representaron para ella una esperanza, un futuro posible, un mundo posible después de la guerra.

El general Vasiliev Ivánovich es un veterano del Ejército Rojo cuya carrera se encuentra en una vía muerta. Al igual que el futuro de la URSS y de su paraíso comunista. A punto de abandonar toda esperanza, su vida da un vuelco al tropezarse con una herencia de la Gran Guerra Patria. De los años olvidados en los que la Wehrmacht conquistaba Europa.De la mano del general, esta novela nos descubre cómo era la vida para cualquier ciudadano bajo el régimen comunista. La misma de la que nunca hablaban las novelas ni el cine. ¿Cómo se abastecía de bienes una familia en la Unión Soviética? ¿Quién podía acceder a la compra de un vehículo? ¿Y de una vivienda? ¿De qué forma se sorteaba la censura? ¿Quién podía viajar y cómo? ¿Cuál era la percepción sobre la amenaza de occidente? ¿Se temía también a una guerra nuclear?Esta novela intenta dar las respuestas a muchas de estas preguntas, que al lector resultarán más sorprendentes de lo esperado.

Gregor Samsa erwacht eines Morgens verwandelt - in ein riesiges Insekt. Familie und Arbeitskollegen sind entsetzt und versuchen die widerwärtige Kreatur unter Kontrolle zu halten."Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch ..."

Die Vertreibung zahlreicher Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler durch die brutale Exklusionspolitik des NS-Regimes und die dadurch ausgelösten internationalen Migrationsbewegungen gelten zu Recht als bedeutsame Zäsur in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auch wenn es übertrieben ist, von einer "geistigen Enthauptung Deutschlands" zu sprechen, wie in älteren Publikationen zu lesen war, führte die 1933 einsetzende "Säuberung" der deutschen Universitäten zu einem beträchtlichen Verlust an wissenschaftlicher Substanz. Das Buch informiert erstmals für alle deutschen Universitäten über die Dimensionen und Konturen dieses Prozesses. Im Zentrum stehen fast 1.300 Biogramme vertriebener Hochschullehrer, die in der Einleitung kollektivbiografisch ausgewertet werden. Die Biogramme geben Auskunft über den akademischen Status der Betroffenen, über die Religionszugehörigkeit, die Mitgliedschaft in politischen Parteien sowie über die Entlassungsgründe, gegebenenfalls auch über KZ-Haft, Emigration und Remigration. Schließlich finden sich in dem Buch die Namen jener Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die Opfer nationalsozialistischer Vernichtungspolitik wurden oder nach der Entlassung Suizid begingen.

A Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by the Writers Union of Canada, a semi-Finalist for a 2019 Kindle Book Award (literary fiction) and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards.In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war. During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar's army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter's forbidden love.Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Ultimately, it's a story about a simple woman who becomes a courageous and inspirational heroine. Based on the true stories of her grandmother's ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.

Lenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text

Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inlandï the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle between a Canadian division determined to widen its hold on the beachhead and an equally determined foe intent on eliminating Juno Beach was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin. Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle and the ultimate triumph of Canadian arms through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, "the defining popular history of Canada's D-Day battle."

The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. A man who could be read as having a different past.Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father, Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded.Josef was a man of many mysteries. To his daughter Monika, none was greater than his obsession with the home's unlikely and remarkable library, his great treasure and comfort as the country barrels away from the memory of war. He will stop at nothing to save it-even when it tears apart his family.Beautifully restrained and compressed, Library for the War-Wounded turns lived experience into great literature by confronting the universal question: Can we ever truly know our parents?

A riveting debut novel of family secrets, based on real events, about a Jewish, Ukrainian veteran with a secret that could land him in the gulag, and his wife and children who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.Yefim Shulman, husband, father, grandfather, and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow finds an old letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession letter reveals what he'd hidden from all who knew him.Your Presence Is Mandatory moves between Yefim's struggles as a Ukrainian Jew in Hitler's Germany, his years concealing from the Soviet authorities and his family the choices he made to survive the war, and the effect his coverup had on the lives of his wife Nina and two children in Donbas, Ukraine between WWII and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.From Germany's prison camps and forced labor system to the Soviet culture of pride and paranoia, Sasha Vasilyuk grapples with the crushing weight of history on one family, and what grace they find in the course of their survival.

A rare glimpse into the mind of one of Mexico’s noted modern architects

The full story of the service and combats missions of 220 Yugoslav aviators in early 1941.Immediately following the end of the First World War, the air force of the newly-formed Southern Slav State, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was forced to rely mainly on war-time Serbian Air Service aircraft and material left after the withdrawal of the French Armée de l'Air from the Balkans in 1919/1920. This equipment was supported by the addition of French war surplus stocks which started arriving in 1921.In 1929 the monarchy changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Then, from 1930, the official name of the air service branch its military was changed to what is commonly known in the West as the Royal Yugoslav Air Force (RYAF). The obsolete First World War aircraft were replaced from 1925 onwards by stop-gap solutions purchased mainly from France, some from the Czechoslovakian Republic as well as from the first domestic factories.From 1936, the RYAF again began to reorganize and modernize, with the purchase of the most modern aircraft available at that time. These aircraft were imported from the UK, Germany and Italy, some being built under license in domestic factories. During this period the Kingdom of Yugoslavia succeeded, as much as conditions allowed, to equip its air force with the most advanced fighter and bomber types of the period.For the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Second World War started on 6 April 1941. The military coup d'etat of 27 March 1941 and anti-German demonstrations in Belgrade clearly aligned the kingdom with the Allies. That same day, Hitler ordered the implementation of Unternehmen 25 (Operation 25) - the attack against Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Hitler had also secured Mussolini's support for this campaign, while Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria gave active or passive backing in exchange for territorial claims in Yugoslavia.Despite all the odds, the airmen of the RYAF fought gallantly in the defense of their homeland, with fighters taking on the German and Italian bombers and their escort fighters - including the Axis types in service with the RYAF.Eventually, due to the deteriorating situation on the front and the ever-increasing risk of the king and his government being captured, the decision was taken to evacuate by air to Greece. In the summer of the 1941 some 220 Yugoslav aviators gathered in Egypt and continued the fight against Axis, this time in the colors of the RAF. This is the full story of their service and combats in the early months of that year.

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was arguably the Luftwaffe's most outstanding piston-engine fighter of the Second World War, virtually dominating the skies over Europe for more than a year after its initial introduction into service in the summer of 1941. Continual development and improvements then kept it at the forefront of operations in the theaters of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean and the Eastern Front for the remainder of the war, while maintaining a competitive edge over many other types as well as gaining and retaining the grudging respect of those Allied pilots who faced it in combat.Despite being designed as a fighter, the BMW 801-powered Fw 190 sub-types performed practically every role possible for a single-engine, single-seat aircraft - including offensive and defensive day fighter, day and night fighter-bomber, ground attack, reconnaissance platform, night-fighter and trainer.The Fw 190A also served in the Hungarian Air Force during the later stages of the Second World War, the Turkish Air Force from mid-1942 to 1948, and post-war with the French, where the SNCAC aircraft company rebuilt over fifty Fw 190A-5/A-6s under the designation NC 900 for service with the new Armée de l'Air.Despite having standard factory-applied camouflage and markings schemes, many Fw 190s were also finished in a variety of 'on unit' and 'seasonal' and/or operational theater schemes which add to the aircraft's story.