Remembrances of Hell

Remembrances of Hell
Title Remembrances of Hell PDF eBook
Author Norman Frederick Ellison
Publisher Airlife Publishing
Pages 158
Release 1997
Genre Authors, English
ISBN 9781853108969

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Hell's Traces

Hell's Traces
Title Hell's Traces PDF eBook
Author Victor Ripp
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 225
Release 2017-03-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374713634

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In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp’s three-year-old cousin, Alexandre. Two months later, the boy was killed in Auschwitz. In Hell’s Traces, Ripp examines this act through the prism of family history. In addition to Alexandre, ten members of Ripp’s family on his father’s side died in the Holocaust. His mother’s side of the family, numbering thirty people, was in Berlin when Hitler came to power. Without exception they escaped the Final Solution. Hell’s Traces tells the story of the two families’ divergent paths. To spark the past to life, he embarks on a journey to visit Holocaust memorials throughout Europe. “Could a stone pillar or a bronze plaque or whatever else constitutes a memorial,” he asks, “cause events that took place more than seven decades ago to appear vivid?” A memorial in Warsaw that includes a boxcar like the ones that carried Jews to Auschwitz compels Ripp to contemplate the horror of Alexandre’s transport to his death. One in Berlin that invokes the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s allows him to better understand how his mother’s family escaped the Nazis. In Paris he stumbles across a playground dedicated to the memory of the French children who were deported, Alexandre among them. Ultimately, Ripp sees thirty-five memorials in six countries. He encounters the artists who designed the memorials, historians who recall the events that are memorialized, and survivors with their own stories to tell. Resolutely unsentimental, Hell’s Traces is structured like a travelogue in which each destination enables a reckoning with the past.

A Perfect Picture of Hell

A Perfect Picture of Hell
Title A Perfect Picture of Hell PDF eBook
Author Ted Genoways
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Pages 356
Release 1998-04
Genre History
ISBN 1587293277

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From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision

The History of Hell

The History of Hell
Title The History of Hell PDF eBook
Author Alice K. Turner
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 324
Release 1993
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780156001373

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A survey of how, over the past 4,000 years, religious leaders, poets, painters, and ordinary people have visualized Hell--its location, architecture, furnishings, purpose, and inhabitants.

Some Hell

Some Hell
Title Some Hell PDF eBook
Author Patrick Nathan
Publisher Graywolf Press
Pages 289
Release 2018-02-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1555979882

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A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide Colin’s family is dissolving in the aftermath of his father’s suicide. While his mother, Diane, retreats into therapy and cynicism, Colin clings to every shred of normal life. Awash with guilt, he casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. Shunned by his siblings and rejected by his homophobic best friend, Colin immerses himself in the notebooks his father left behind. Full of strange facts, lists, and historical anecdotes that neither Colin nor Diane can understand, the notebooks infect their worldview until they can no longer tell what’s real and what’s imagined. A novel of aching intensity, Some Hell shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.

A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700

A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700
Title A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700 PDF eBook
Author Philip Booth
Publisher BRILL
Pages 529
Release 2020-11-23
Genre History
ISBN 9004443436

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This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
Title I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp PDF eBook
Author Richard Hell
Publisher Ecco
Pages 0
Release 2014-02-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780062190840

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From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms. How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture—cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry—is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.