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Winds of life
The Destinies of a Young Viennese Jew 1938-1958
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This gripping autobiography follows the author from his boyhood and youth in Vienna, where he survived two and a half years under Nazi rule, to the concentration camp of Buchenwald; it describes his eighty-three-day journey on a small ship with another thousand refugees; his survial of the sinking of the SS Patria; a seven-month's imprisonment by the British; four years in the British Army; the troubling and dangerous times of 1946-1948 in Palestine; and two years in the Israeli army. In 1958, after working with a water and oil drilling company for eight years, he moved to the United States and now resides in San Francisco.
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Winds of life, Gershon Evan
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- Winds of life
- Subtitle
- The Destinies of a Young Viennese Jew 1938-1958
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gershon Evan
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 377
- ISBN10
- 1572410868
- ISBN13
- 9781572410862
- Series
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- This gripping autobiography follows the author from his boyhood and youth in Vienna, where he survived two and a half years under Nazi rule, to the concentration camp of Buchenwald; it describes his eighty-three-day journey on a small ship with another thousand refugees; his survial of the sinking of the SS Patria; a seven-month's imprisonment by the British; four years in the British Army; the troubling and dangerous times of 1946-1948 in Palestine; and two years in the Israeli army. In 1958, after working with a water and oil drilling company for eight years, he moved to the United States and now resides in San Francisco.