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Author Lieff, Kerstin.

Title Letters from Berlin : a story of war, survival, and the redeeming power of love and friendship / Margarete Dos and Kerstin Lieff. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. Lyons Press, 2012.
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Contents Part I. Paradise Lost, 1933-1942 -- Paradise -- Am I Still the Way We Used to Be? -- An Important Man Arrives -- A City I Would Fall in Love With -- The Night of Broken Glass -- The Announcement Came -- That's Just How It Is Now -- Part II. Bombs on Berlin, 1942-1945 -- In the Bunkers -- I'll Be Home in No Time -- You'll Study Medicine -- The Professor with the Gray Boots -- You'll Not Recognize It -- The Twentieth of July -- Horse Carts and Children -- Who Will Save Us? -- The Final Days -- It's Over -- Part III. Journey to a New Life, 1945-1949 -- A Sharp Turn -- Stay Small -- Snow -- The Seasons Changed -- You Still Have Hope -- The Wide-Open Nothingness -- Mutti Was Stoic -- How I Came to Kiel -- The Man Who Had Been to Canada -- Coda: Sweden, 1952 -- The Lake -- Letters to My Beloved Franzel -- Epilogue.
Summary "The stunning memoir of a girl coming of age in Hitler's Germany, her subsequent imprisonment in the Russian Gulag, and her posthumously discovered love letters to a mysterious soldier on the front-written during the final siege of Berlin."--Jacket.
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject Dos, Margarete, 1924-2005.
Dos, Margarete, 1924-2005 -- Correspondence.
Dos, Margarete, 1924-2005.
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz -- Biography.
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
Nurses -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care -- Germany -- Berlin.
Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Novomoskovsk -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
Medical care.
Nurses.
Prisoners of war.
Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
Germany -- Berlin.
Russia (Federation) -- Novomoskovsk.
Genre Electronic books.
Biography.
Personal narratives German.
Records and correspondence.
Added Author Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN 9780762789733 : $19.99
0762789735 : $19.99
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