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...Samuel Pisar's Of Blood and Hope soared to the top of bestseller lists throughout Europe. The book war certainly not the first autobiography to be written about Nazi death camps, and while the unexpected twists of Pisar's subsequent life made his tale more dramatic than most, that along did not account for the book's rampant popularity. Unlike most Holocaust memoirs. Of Blood and Hope was not just a reminiscence, but a warning. The book, like its author, was a product of the past, projected onto the future...
...Pisar's self-appelation accurately describes his present life, it is drawn from his past, and thus encapsulizes his vision of the future. Born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1929, he lived through Soviet occupation and Nazi terror, spending four years in Maidanek, Dachau and Auschwitz and escaping death only through a combination of luck and nerve. One of the youngest survivors of the concentration camps, Pisar lost his entire family to the war and was the only student in his grammar school of 900 to survive. Although he eventually earned doctorates from Harvard and the Sorbonne and rose to intellectual...
Born to a Russian peasant family in the Novgorod region, Romanov helped to defend Leningrad during the 900-day Nazi blockade in World War II. Eventually landing the top post of party boss in the city where the Bolshevik Revolution began, Romanov gained the admiration, and perhaps envy, of party colleagues for his success in revitalizing Leningrad's aging industry...
That proved another futile hope. In the next decade, Roosevelt and his advisers came to realize that they were dealing with a political system that was not only deeply repugnant to Western values but virtually impervious to Western attempts to change it. Nevertheless, compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...
Fleening the Nazi occupation. Jakobson went first to Sweden and then to the United States, becoming a professor at Columbia University (1946-1949). Harvard (1949-1967) and finally MIT (1957-1982). While at Columbia and Harvard, Jakobson worked on a defence of the authenticity of the Old Russian epic. "The Igor Tale...