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Author Von Rosen, Martha, 1904-

Title A Baltic odyssey : war and survival / Martha von Rosen, Jürgen von Rosen ; edited by Elvi Whittaker
Published [Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 320 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Introduction / Elvi Whittaker -- The Reminiscences of Martha von Rosen. 1. From Geppertsfeld to the Oder. 2. From the Oder to the Elbe. 3. An End to Flight. 4. Life Under Soviet Occupation. 5. Marking Time. 6. New Surprises. 7. Reconnaissance. 8. Reunion. 9. The Last Return -- The Diary of Jurgen von Rosen -- Introduction / Elvi Whittaker. 1. Bellaria, Camp 14. 2. From Bellaria to Ile-de-France. 3. Forced Labour Camps in France. 4. Ried, Upper Bavaria -- Life in Canada: The Open World / Martha von Rosen -- Editor's Afterword: Some Anthropological Reflections on Ethnography, War, Ethnicity and Other Matters
Summary Fifty years after the end of World War II, two unique narratives chronicle the final months of that desperate struggle in very personal and explicit terms. While cruelly separated from one another, Jurgen and Martha von Rosen have written two parallel accounts about the same years. Baron von Rosen's prisoner-of-war diary is a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. It reveals a picture of the "enemy," and the conduct of the Allied forces toward their captives, which may be quite foreign to conventional knowledge. The Baron who had been conscripted into the Afrika Korps, was captured by the Allies in Italy after Germany surrendered in 1945. Baroness von Rosen's memoir is a refugee's account of war. As a young woman fleeing from the advancing Russians, she travelled through a harsh winter landscape accompanied by her aged parents and her young children
These poignant stories clearly show the experience of the forgotten and homeless victims of war, no matter what side they happen to have been on
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index
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Subject Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954.
Von Rosen, Martha, 1904-
SUBJECT Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954 fast
Von Rosen, Martha, 1904- fast
Von Rosen, Juergen. nli
Von Rosen, Martha. nli
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
Immigrants
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
Erlebnisbericht
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
Canada
Esten.
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954.
Whittaker, Elvi W
ISBN 0585172498
9780585172491
9781552382899
1552382893
1895176247
9781895176247