City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga - Softcover

Michelson, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870817884 ISBN 13: 9780870817885

Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2004

Synopsis

Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45), at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. This is an account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust.

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Review:

"With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival."

"With each memoir by a survivor, Riga's tragic fate becomes better known. Thus Max Michelson's book, filled with poignant and moving episodes, deserves to be read by anyone wishing to learn more about the life and death of a Jewish community which included the great historian Shimon Dubnov. But it is also a story of courage and rebirth of a young man who wants to find meaning in his survival."
--Elie Wiesel

Synopsis:

This is a stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust. Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45) at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalised, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide. Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0870817884
• ISBN 13: 9780870817885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 187