Michelangelo in Ravensbrück
Book by Karolina Lanckoroñska
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Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War against the Nazis is a memoir by Karolina Lanckoroñska, a World War II resistance fighter and postwar historian who survived the Ravensbrück concentration ... Wikipedia
Originally published: 2005
Author: Karolina Lanckoroñska
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It is a rare autobiographical account of life at the blood-spattered hands of the Soviets and the Nazis, while also being a particularly enlightening view of ...
Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War against the Nazis is a memoir by Karolina Lanckoroñska, a World War II resistance fighter and postwar historian ...
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Sep 10, 2007 · During World War II she was working for Polish underground. She stayed some time in prison in Stanis³awów and later sent to notorious ...
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Publishers Weekly. A Polish aristocrat born in Austria, Countess Lanckoronska (1898- 2002) became an art history professor at the University of Lvov, Poland.
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Written in 1945-46 but just published in the United States, Michelangelo in Ravensbruck is a memoir of the German and Soviet occupations of Poland -- but it is ...
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Michelangelo in Ravensbrück : one woman's war against the Nazis / Karolina Lanckoroñska ; translated by Noel Clark ; preface by Eva Hoffman.
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There she taught art history to other women who, like her, might be dead in a few days. This brilliantly written memoir records a neglected side of World War II ...
An unusual memoir from an unusual point of view, one that at times recalls Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind; readable and thought-provoking. Like Counts 0 ...
A Polish aristocrat blessed with a considerable sense of noblesse oblige recalls years of resistance to totalitarian rule.Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, who ...