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City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga
City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga is Max Michelson's stirring and haunting personal account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust.
Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. P...more
Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. P...more
Paperback, 188 pages
Published
July 20th 2004
by University Press of Colorado
(first published 2001)
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I thought this memoir only average, and quite self-indulgent. Fully half of the book is about the author's genealogy and his life before the war began. He devoted a chapter to each of his relatives. This section should have been cut by two-thirds. Things got more exciting when he finally started talking about the Nazi invasion, but I wish he would have written more about his feelings during that time and how he was able to survive when so many died. Meh.
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Those interested in learning about the Riga Ghetto or interested in personal narratives of WWII.
This book is of great personal interest since my mother was a slave laborer in the Riga Ghetto during WWII after her family was forcibly moved from their home in Germany and "relocated" to Latvia. The author was an engineer and the writing is competent and clear. I recommend this book for people interested in learning about the Riga Ghetto or interested in personal narratives of WWII.
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