Virtual Macedonia Bookstore - The Persistence of Hope: A True Story

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092 EAN: 9780874139631 ISBN: 0874139635 Label: University of Delaware Press Manufacturer: University of Delaware Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 323 Publication Date: 2007-08-31 Publisher: University of Delaware Press Studio: University of Delaware Press
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Incredible refuge survival story of the camps in Italy ! Comment: This is a book I couldn't put down. Its a first person narrative of a young Jewish artist and his parents running from Belgrade to Southern Italy. They were first living in refuge camps, and finally hiding in the mountains in Northern Italy running from the Nazis. I wanted to know how they survived in the camps and who allowed them to leave and who hid them once they out in the Italian hill towns. The Italian people who hid them were amazing. Its a story of the human spirit. A man who saved his parents and brought them to America.
Editorial Reviews: This is the story of the impact of the Nazi rise to power on the life of a Jewish youth from Belgrade who becomes a vibrant artist in Rome, then Boston, where he joins the Harvard faculty. In his spare time, he reveals in his favorite sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, watching Allied POWs outwit their German captors. In "The Persistence of Hope", Albert Alcalay relates how he triumphed over the Nazi racial persecutions through intuition, reason, luck, pure nerve, cunning, and the help of good people.