The river of angry dogs : a memoir / Mira Hamermesh ; introduction by Fay Weldon.
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TextPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781849642323
- 184964232X
- 6611750428
- 9786611750428
- Hamermesh, Mira
- Hamermesh, Mira
- Jews -- Poland -- Biography
- Jewish refugees -- Biography
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Poland -- Biography
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors -- Poland -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Poland
- Juifs -- Pologne -- Biographies
- Réfugiés juifs -- Biographies
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Pologne -- Biographies
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma juifs -- Pologne -- Biographies
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Réfugiés -- Pologne
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War II
- HISTORY -- Middle East -- General
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors
- Jewish refugees
- Jews
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Refugees
- Poland
- Weibliche Überlebende
- Judenverfolgung
- Judenvernichtung
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- 940.53/092 B 22
- DS135.P63 H35484 2004
- PN1998.3.H328 A3 2004
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Introduction / Fay Weldon -- Before the War -- Crossing Borders -- Reunions -- Tearing Through the Iron Curtain -- After the Pilgrimage.
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Mira Hamermesh is an award-winning film maker, painter and writer. This moving memoir gives a vivid account of her remarkable life. As a young Jewish teenager she escaped the horrors of German-occupied Poland with only her natural creativity, a rebellious spirit and a talent for good fortune to rely on. Of the millions of words written about WWII, few come from women, and even fewer recount such adventure. Spared the experience of the ghetto and the concentration camp that claimed most of her family, Mira's story is a life-affirming account of a life lived to the full, and a meditation on survival and coincidence, that pays homage to other people's courage. Recounting her escape into Soviet-occupied Poland, Mira shows how her status as a refugee has continued to influence her throughout her life. The journey led her across Europe and eventually to Palestine in 1941; her account of that region, before the establishment of Israel, provides a fascinating insight into the historical setting for today's conflict. Having settled in London where she studied art and married, she eventually won a place at the celebrated Polish Film School in Lodz. At the height of the Cold War Mira Hamermesh commuted across the Iron Curtain - her experience of a divided Europe offers many insights into the political factors that affected people's everyday lives. Mira's theme of political conflict, so often explored in her films, is brought to life here in an intimate account that will live long in the memory.
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