Nancy Wright Beasley
Autor von Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust
Werke von Nancy Wright Beasley
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1945-09-02
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Ausbildung
- Virginia Commonwealth University (MA|2000)
Hollins University (MFA 2011) - Berufe
- journalist
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- Werke
- 3
- Mitglieder
- 48
- Beliebtheit
- #325,720
- Bewertung
- 4.1
- Rezensionen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 6
- Favoriten
- 1
It is the story of five Lithuanian Jewish families who managed to escape the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. What is most remarkable about Izzy’s Fire, is not the fact that the families escaped the Kovno Ghetto, but the fact that they were hidden by a Catholic family.
Nancy Wright Beasley writes with compassion, yet also with a sharpness, not withholding or color coating the information presented. The ugliness is there for all to read, but so is the inspirational relating of the events. She offers hope when bleakness surrounds the environment. That is the magnificence and beauty of her writing.… (mehr)