Author: Amalia Balch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737156710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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An inspirational memoir of a Greek orphan's journey through woundedness toward healing and wholeness.

Author: Amalia Balch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737156703
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Yolanda Avram Willis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524601780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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“Your story deserves to be widely heard.” —Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize–winning author and Holocaust survivor ---------------------------------------------------------------- Six-year-old Yolanda Avram is rescued by righteous strangers during the Holocaust in Greece. This is her story of courage and survival in the context of dozens of other rescues and shows Jews saving themselves and others in audacious and often heroic ways. Her story is uplifting and focuses on those flickers of light in the vast darkness of evil, known in Greece as the Persecution. This little-known saga of the common folk outwitting the Third Reich is a powerful and important story, told simply and movingly in cinematic episodes. The book is incandescent with empathy and gratitude. “What a powerful and moving story it is.” —Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and author of eighty-eight historical books “A Hidden Child in Greece is a monumental story that documents her family’s miraculous survival in a unique and moving way. It gives life to the principle of human dignity and courage as a universal precept . . . this book is a true light unto the nations.” —Yaffa Eliach, author and creator of the first university-level Holocaust curriculum and the Tower of Life, a 1,500-photograph permanent display at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC “Willis is Anne Frank, if Anne Frank had lived.” —Diana Hume George, author and educator “For me, the heart of this book is the family story—the real power lays in the intimate story you are able to describe very simply and movingly.” —Mark Mazower, director, modern European history, Columbia University

Author: Gonda Van Steen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472038818
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Author: Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871135544
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The text was originally published with other illustrations in 1983 by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Here it is repackaged with reproductions of over 65 paintings by Francoise Gilot (the paintings were created independently--not expressly for the book). Neither the text nor the artwork are conventional explications of how the gods were understood by the Greeks, but rather, both writer and artist offer personal interpretations of each god's character, power, and meaning. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Alison Sky Richards
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500732660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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When Zeus sends out an edict that all mortals will be killed off due to their disloyalty to the gods, Hermes decides to take matters into his own hands to stop this from happening and makes a hero of his line to fight against the gods.However, someone forgot to tell Anton about his destiny…Lost Child of Hermes is the epic story of the mortal son of Hermes; born to stop the annihilation of the mortal race and hidden from the gods out to destroy him until he is ready. Orphaned early in his life, Anton is forced to live among different groups of people and endure some of the worst fates any mortal can live through – racism, slavery, torture, and even death – all because of a destiny no one told him he was to carry. Only when he is face to face with the God of War does he learn his fate, but is given no guidance on how to fulfill his destiny and stop the end of the world as he knows it.This book is a YA fantasy taking place in ancient Greek times. The trials that Anton goes through in his life are similar to situations that the modern YA reader would be able to relate to, especially if they find themselves a victim of bullying. This book hopes to inspire the younger generations to be able to overcome the feelings of being a victim and finding faith in themselves – and others – when all they feel as if they are “cursed” to be this way.

Author: Cobblestone Cobblestone Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780812679298
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Offers a fascinating look at the daily life of children growing up many years ago in ancient Greece and how it compares to life today.

Author: John Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Sousanna Stratmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990497752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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As a five-year-old in 1950s Greece, Sousanna plays at being The American. When a stranger deceives her illiterate parents, she is sold to a new family and discovers that being an American is not a life of luxury. As her family searches for Sousanna, she must endure alone in a strange place-unaware of changes that mean home will never be the same.

Author: Nicholas Gage
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307760642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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"A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of Books In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to be a top investigative reporter for the New York Times. And finally he returned to Greece to uncover the story he cared about most -- the story of his mother's heroic life and tragic death.