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Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano... Read Full Overview

Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II

This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings... Read Full Overview

Basis for the CBS Mini-series Starring Natasha Richardson. "The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand... Read Full Overview

Basis for the CBS Mini-series Starring Natasha Richardson. "The words leaped at me from The Washington Post . 'I have decided, ' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand... Read Full Overview

Burning Lights is a book in the English language by Bella Chagall.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made... Read Full Overview

BURNING LIGHTS by BELLA CHAGALL. Contents include: HERITAGE 9 THE COURTYARD 13 THE BATH * 5 SABBATH 4 THE MELAMMED 63 ROSH-HA-SHANAH 73 DAY OF ATONEMENT 82 SUKKOT Q SIMCHAT TORAH * o6 THE FIRST SNOW ** 5 THE HANUKKAH LAMP 12* THE FIFTH LIGHT ** 6 HANUKKAH MONEY THE SHOP J... Read Full Overview

Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II