Author: Dorit Oliver-Wolff
Publisher: Reddoor Publishing
ISBN: 9781910453094
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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It is not that I want to remember, it is simply that I cannot forget.When Dorit Oliver was just four years old she sang and danced in front of the future king of Yugoslavia. By six years old she was in hiding from the German soldiers who were rounding up and transporting her fellow Jews to concentration camps around Europe.Years of terror follow, with narrow escapes from capture and bombing raids plus betrayals by those she thought were her friends until, at last, she and her mother are rescued from the cellar in which they are hiding. Singing helps her survive those dark days. But the Holocaust is only part of Dorit's amazing story. After the war, stateless and without papers, she joins a touring dance troupe in order to be permitted to travel. She studies by day and sings and dances in seedy clubs by night until a talent scout spots her and then her story really begins.Tense, moving and inspirational, Dorit's remarkable story takes the reader through fear and horror, to freedom and joy and shows how the bravery and fortitude of one little Jewish girl helped her survive the holocaust and become a star.
Author: Jennifer Rozines Roy
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9781845079086
Category : Biographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions. At the end of the war, there were 800 survivors. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. This is the story of Sylvia Perlmutter, one of the twelve.
Author: Dorit Oliver-Wolff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783017362
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages :
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When Dorit Oliver was just four years old she sang and danced in front of the future king of Yugoslavia. By six years old she was in hiding from the German soldiers who were rounding up and transporting her fellow Jews to concentration camps around Europe.Years of terror follow, with narrow escapes from capture and bombing raids plus betrayals by those she thought were herfriends until, at last, she and her mother are rescued from the basement flat in which they are hiding. Singing helps hersurvive those dark days. But the Holocaust is only part of Dorit's amazing story. After the war, stateless and without papers, she joins a touring dance troupe in order to be permitted to travel. She studies by day and sings and dances in seedy clubs by night until a talent scout spots her... and then her story really begins.Tense, moving and inspirational, Dorit's remarkable story moves the reader through fear and horror, to freedom and joyand shows how the bravery and fortitude of one little Jewish girl helped her survive the Holocaust and become a star.
Author: Andy Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787416185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Author: Justin Kuritzkes
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250309034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when you live a life like mine—it’s only when you’re in a position where you don’t even really own yourself, when you can’t even really say that you’re a citizen of any particular country—that you realize that we’re all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we’re never heard from again. So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his teenage love (and girl pop-star counterpart) “Mandy” have taken, and increasingly aware that he has signed on to something he has little control over, he begins to parse the divide that separates him from the “normal people” of the world. Sneakily philosophical, earnest and funny, Justin Kuritzkes's Famous People is a rollicking, unforgettable look at the clash between fame and the human condition.
Author: Regie Hamm
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1616634405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Regie Hamm's life has all the twists, turns, and drama of a Hollywood movie. Only this isn't Hollywood, and the cast isn't actors. As a hit artist, producer, and songwriter, Regie was familiar with the drama of the press, the endless nights in the studio, and the uncertainty of his next paycheck. But nothing would prepare him for the drama of a rural Chinese hospital, the endless nights of raising an insomniac baby, or the uncertainty of her condition. There was nothing he could do except stand by and helplessly watch his life and career spin out of control. Regie's story is one of a man and his family who overcame enormous obstacles. It is a journey that put him in the company of Angels and Idols—a journey that would test not only his physical resources but also his faith. Join author Regie Hamm as he recounts his rise, his fall, and his ultimate surrender to God's will.
Author: Rachel Renée Russell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
ISBN: 9781471144035
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nikki Maxwell's school is holding a talent competition and Nikki can't wait to start practising dance moves with her friends Chloe and Zoey and impressing Brandon, her crush, with her singing skills
Author: Rich Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429930578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever he was—he would be in the holy city, and his faith preserved. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple, and unlike an idea, a temple can be destroyed. With exuberance, humor, and real scholarship, Rich Cohen's Israel is Real offers "a serious attempt by a gifted storyteller to enliven and elucidate Jewish religious, cultural, and political history . . . A powerful narrative" (Los Angeles Times).
Author: Dorit Oliver-Wolff
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495486029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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I am a Holocaust survivor and was an international recording artist. I am an author and an experienced public speaker. This booklet tells of my experiences of the Holocaust, seen through the eyes of a little Jewish girl, and life beyond that. I survived against all odds. The stories inside are snippets from my memoires, the story of how I battled to survive to rise from Holocaust survivor to internationally renowned recording artist. 'Behind The Smile'. From Yellow Star To Pop Star.
Author: Tracey Thorn
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 1405513985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.
