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In the Unlikeliest of Places - How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism (Hardcover)
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In the Unlikeliest of Places - How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism (Hardcover)
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Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father
record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her
father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of
tapesaseveral years' worthawith his spectacular life, triumphs, and
tragedies told one last time in his baritone voice. Nachman
Libeskind's remarkable story is an odyssey through crucial events
of the twentieth century. With an unshakable will and a few drops
of luck, he survives a pre-war Polish prison; witnesses the 1939
Nazi invasion of Lodz and narrowly escapes; is imprisoned in a
brutal Soviet gulag where he helps his fellow inmates survive, and
upon regaining his freedom treks to the foothills of the Himalayas,
where he finds and nearly loses the love of his life. Later, the
crushing communist regime and a lingering postwar anti-Semitism in
Poland drive Nachman and his young family to Israel, where he faces
a new form of discrimination. Then, defiantly, Nachman turns a
pocketful of change into a new life in New York City, where a
heartbreaking promise leads to his unlikely success as a modernist
painter that inspires others to pursue their dreams. With just a
box of tapes, Annette Libeskind Berkovits tells more than her
father's story: she builds an uncommon family saga and reimagines a
turbulent past. In the process she uncovers a stubborn optimism
that flourished in the unlikeliest of places.
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