ISBN:
9780874139631
,
0874139635
Language:
English
Pages:
323 pages
,
illustrations, maps
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2007
DDC:
940.53/18092
Keywords:
Alcalay, Albert
;
Jews Biography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Painters Biography
;
Alcalay, Albert
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Painters
;
Verfolgung
;
Italy
;
Serbia ; Belgrade
;
Juden
;
Belgrad
;
Italien
;
Biographies
;
Personal narratives
;
Personal narratives
;
Belgrade (Serbia) Biography
Abstract:
Thursday, March 27, 1941 -- A proud and fearful nation -- The debacle -- Prisoner of war -- Return to Belgrade -- My father's journal : part I -- The quest for freedom -- My father's journal : part II -- A voyage to Italy -- My father's journal : part III -- Interlude in Northern Italy -- My father's journal : part IV -- Reunited -- Ferramonti -- Confino libero -- In flight and hiding -- Final refuge -- Liberation.
Abstract:
This is the personal saga of a young Yugoslavian artist who, well aware of the Nazi danger from its earliest days, was drafted into the Yugoslav army and taken prisoner of war. Released from the work camp because of his personal courage, Alcalay returned to Nazi-occupied Belgrade where German reprisals caused the execution of over one hundred Jews. Despite the dangers, he and his family began a journey of escape that led them in various directions until an Italian family saved them. He survived to flourish in postwar Rome as a prominent member of a successor generation to the great Jewish Emotionalist movement that included Soutine, Pascine, Modigliani, Zadkine, and Chagall. Albert Alcalay is retired from Harvard University. - Publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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