Ergebnis für "zweiter weltkrieg" in Frauen

Die Historikerin Anna Maria Sigmund zeichnet in ihrem Bestseller acht eindringliche Porträts von Frauen in herausragender gesellschaftlicher Position des NS-Terrorregimes, darunter Emmy Göring, Magda Goebbels, Eva Braun und Leni Riefenstahl. Diese Neuausgabe überrascht mit zahlreichen neuen Erkenntnissen aus lange verschlossenen Archiven und neu aufgefundenen Quellen.

Ein Winter, der alles verändert. Eine Flucht, die eine ganze Familie prägt. Eine wahre Geschichte, die berührt.Im eisigen Januar 1945 muss eine Familie alles zurücklassen — ihr Zuhause, ihre Sicherheit, ihre Kindheitsträume. Was als gewöhnlicher Wintertag beginnt, verwandelt sich in eine dramatische Flucht vor Krieg und Zerstörung. Mit wenigen Habseligkeiten und einem einzigen Koffer treten sie eine Reise an, die durch Schnee, Kälte und Ungewissheit führt.

Eine spannende Zeitreise ins Schicksalsjahr berühmter Frauen. Unda Hörner folgt den Spuren berühmter Frauen in zwölf lebendig erzählten Kapiteln durch das Jahr 1939: Hannah Arendt gelingt die Flucht nach New York, Helene Weigel zieht mit dem Brecht-Tross nach Schweden. Marlene Dietrich...

1984. Die fünfzehnjährige Marta flieht aus dem kommunistischen Polen nach Deutschland. Sie lässt das Kriegsrecht, Nahrungsmittelrationierung, Solidarność hinter sich. Alles ist neu. Nach dem Abitur in Kiel und dem Medizinstudium im Berlin der ersten Stunde nach der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands geht sie in die Schweiz, wo sie forensische Psychiaterin und Psychotherapeutin wird. Dreißig Jahre nach der Emigration stirbt die stets rätselhafte Mutter, und erst dann kommt deren ungeheuerliches Geheimnis von historischer Tragweite ans Tageslicht.

In diesem von Marlies Wenzel zum Leben erweckten Hörbuch erfährt man die schwierige Lebensgeschichte der Autorin Jetta Schapiro-Rosenzweig in Litauen während dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Sie berichtet wie ihre Familie nach dem deutschen Einmarsch und die folgende Auflösung des Ghettos aus den Augen verliert. Ihr Ehemann wird ins KZ gebracht, während sie selbst mit ihrer jungen Tochter flüchten kann. Von nun an wandert sie von Ort zu Ort und gibt sich als Nichtjüdin aus.

Nederland 1939. De oorlog staat op het punt van uitbreken. Sportvlieger Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten probeert haar droom te verwezenlijken en is begonnen als stewardess bij de KLM. Ida leeft voor de lucht, alleen boven de wolken voelt ze de vrijheid waar ze zo’n behoefte aan heeft. Maar als de Duitsers Nederland bezetten en Schiphol wordt gebombardeerd gaat haar droom letterlijk in rook op.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

Schauplatz Ludwigshafen/Rhein. Im Mai 1939 kommt Ilse Oehler zur Welt. Ihre ersten Lebensjahre: geprägt von Bombenangriffen, Fliegeralarm und Nächten im Bunker. Ihr Elternhaus: pflichtbeflissen und schweigsam. Und so beginnt für die lebenslustige junge Frau ein verzweifelter Kampf um Liebe, Anerkennung, Selbstbestimmung und ein bisschen Freiheit. Bis Ilse um sich herum eine Mauer aus Schweigen baut und die Katastrophe unausweichlich scheint.

FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.

«Sì, la guerra avanza rombando verso Berlino. Ciò che ieri era ancora un brontolio lontano, oggi è un tambureggiare continuo... Viviamo dentro un cerchio di bocche di fuoco che si restringe di ora in ora». L'autrice ha voluto restare anonima da quando il libro vide per la prima volta la luce negli anni Cinquanta e fu accolto, soprattutto in Germania, con un senso di fastidio, anzi, di esplicito rifiuto. Decise allora di vietarne ogni riedizione finché fosse rimasta in vita. Solo dopo la sua morte, avvenuta nel 2001, Hans M. Enzensberger ebbe l'autorizzazione a riproporlo.

Few disasters have touched Australia as profoundly as the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur – one of the deadliest wartime attacks ever on Australia – killing 268 souls on a mission of mercy. Ellen Savage, a fearless nurse from country New South Wales, was the only woman to survive. For more than 34 hours, she and other heroes fought off sharks and helped the injured until rescuers arrived. She was awarded the George Medal for her bravery.

08. September 1957. Zwölf Jahre sind vergangen, als ich in dieses Buch das letzte Mal einschrieb. Es war der 23. Februar 1945, Dieter war 12 Jahre alt. Zwei Lebensabschnitte von großer Bedeutung, die alles, aber auch alles enthalten, was das menschliche Schicksal an Glück und Leid zu enthalten vermag. Charlotte Korsch, eine junge Mutter in Berlin, begann ihr Tagebuch, als ihr Sohn Dieter im Jahre 1933 in Berlin geboren wurde, wenige Wochen nach Hitlers Machtübernahme.

In a world marked by profound turmoil and unspeakable horror, one young girl’s voice continues to resonate through the ages, offering a beacon of hope, resilience, and the enduring power of the human spirit. "Anne Frank" delves deep into the life and legacy of Anne Frank, exploring the nuances of her extraordinary story beyond the pages of her famous diary.

In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum – release her husband, Italy’s former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband’s incendiary diaries to the press. Instead, Hitler and Mussolini vowed to do everything in their power to destroy the diaries – even if it meant killing Edda. They ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries’ location.

This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.

This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of 28 women to fly military aircraft for the US Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At 16, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo “a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown”. The year was 1930: Record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love’s future rival) had not yet learned to fly, and the most famous woman pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, had yet to make her acclaimed solo Atlantic flight.

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit - the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel.

Uma história emocionante que se passa durante os anos da Segunda Guerra, em Berlim. De dia, a jornalista alemã Ruth trabalhava para a revista feminina Die junge Dame (A jovem senhora) e, à noite, salvava desconhecidos, amigos e conhecidos judeus, abrigando-os em sua casa. Pessoas como Ruth arriscaram suas vidas fazendo uso da coragem civil para salvar cinco mil pessoas na Alemanha. Em Berlim, 1.700 conseguiram sobreviver com a ajuda de corajosos civis.