'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.' JOE DUFFY At only five months old, John Cameron was abandoned in a Dublin orphanage, and fostered out as a child labourer by age three. In 1944 when he turned eight, he was incarcerated in Artane Industrial School, where he became boy 11963. Now in his mid-eighties, John Cameron tells his shocking but inspirational story for the first time. As a child, reduced to a number, he survived savage assaults, sexual abuse and the tragic deaths of children around him. Along with other forgotten boys, he battled for his life against the heartless adversity of the church and the Irish state. As a young man - a much-loved schoolteacher devoted to his growing family - John was haunted by his unknown past and embarked on a lifelong quest to unravel the truth about his origins. Buried in a labyrinth of lies, he finally uncovered a story of forbidden love and passion that scandalised rural Ireland and made national headlines in the 1930s. Boy 11963 is a unique account of overcoming almost insurmountable obstacles to find out who you truly are.

Joseph Ben Brith, UEberlebender des Holocaust, erzahlt die dramatische Geschichte seiner weitverzweigten judischen Familie. Am Ende eines erfullten Berufslebens vertiefte er sich in die Geschichte des UEberlebenskampfes seiner Vorfahren und stiess auf erste Spuren "seiner" Diaspora 500 Jahre zuvor im spanisch-portugiesischen Grenzraum. Hier sind die Wurzeln der Henrique-Familie ausfindig zu machen, deren Einzelschicksale durch die Jahrhunderte bis zu Ernst Bundheim und Johanna Gluckstadt, den Eltern, beschrieben werden. Ausgreifend sogar bis nach UEbersee und regionalverhaftet im norddeutschen Raum, entfaltet sich dem Leser ein buntes kreatives, judisches Leben. Jedes der hier spannend geschriebenen Generationsschicksale wird eingebettet in den historischen Kontext der einzelnen Lander, Regionen und Stadte, ob nun Portugal, Holland, Ostfriesland oder England, Danemark und Hamburg. Joseph Ben Brith schreibt sachlich, bescheiden, allerdings im stolzen Bewusstsein auf die grossen Leistungen seiner Familie und deren Vorfahren. Ein solches Buch auf Deutsch zu schreiben, der Sprache seiner entmenschten Peiniger, ist mehr als eine noble Geste Joseph Ben Briths: Es ist ein Schritt zur Versoehnung.

The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.

A tour de force about the impact of war on one family over the twentieth century. Working at the Australian War Memorial for many years, Michael McKernan had heard and written about many stories of war. For him, war was never about the big picture; it always came down to the individual. Yet little did he know when he met his future wife in 1989 that her father would soon be telling him, over many leisurely afternoons, his own story, of being made a slave to the Nazis in the Second World War, and its unforeseeable consequences. One of these consequences was that Mychajlo Stawyskyj's son Joe would grow up in Australia in time to be sent to fight in Vietnam, where he would become one of that war's worst casualties. Drawing on his authoritative grasp of twentieth-century history, and in particular military and social history, Michael McKernan pieces together the disrupted lives of his father-in-law and brother-in-law, creating a compelling narrative of general interest, as well as an unforgettable story about the cost of war to one Australian family.

Inscriptions on gravestones are an important, often unique source for genealogists. This series makes available genealogical information from graveyards, wills, newspapers, and other sources in Ulster. Since 1966, 21 volumes covering much of County Down, 3 volumes for County Antrim, and 4 volumes for Belfast have been published. Some volumes are still available in print, while those that are out-of-print are available on microfiche.

The Highlands of Scotland, and more specifically the clans that inhabit them, have a romantic resonance and mystery. Fitzroy Maclean recounts their extraordinary history, from their Celtic origins to Robert the Bruce, the wars of independence and Bannockburn, from Flodden, Mary Queen of Scots to the Jacobite Risings of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth-century Clearances and the modern day. Highlanders sheds light on the motivation and character of the clans, bringing vividly to life their highly dramatic stories. Never before has there been such a thorough and well-balanced view of Highland history.