City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga

by Max Michelson

Book Overview

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. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870817884
• ISBN13: 9780870817885
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.6"