Ergebnis für "Born" in Zweiter Weltkrieg

Da nazisterne i 1943 indledte forfølgelsen af jøder i Danmark, flygtede hovedparten af de danske jøder til Sverige. For nylig er det kommet frem, at en del af dem måtte efterlade deres børn i Danmark. Disse børn kaldes i dag de gemte børn. I denne bog fortæller 11 af disse børn, hvordan det at være et 'gemt barn' har præget resten af deres liv.

As a Russian recruit in World War II, Ivan Makarov witnessed General Chuikov pull out his pistol and shoot their regimental commander as a traitor. That was on his first day at the front. Thrown into an open field to face German tanks and artillery fire, with only rifles and machine guns to defend themselves with, almost 2,000 men of his regiment were wiped out in only six days at the Eastern Front. At this rate, Ivan struggled to comprehend how he would survive the hundreds of battles that lay before him, with death seeming to be the only certainty.

When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where Helga first learnt the...