The Secret Holocaust Diaries
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781598595321 (1598595326)
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Oasis Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Holocaust
So...one certainly feels like one can't critique a diary of a young girl during WWII; and yet, this book was really quite terrible. I blame the editors. There was so much repetition (and yet so much still missing). We hear several stories twice; the editors feel the need to insert footnotes within...
Browsing through my Nook and Kindle books, I came across this one on my Nook, and I decided to have a look at it. After reading barely 40 pages, I was so sad that I had to stop for awhile, but I knew that if I didn't read this one, in one sitting, I might never return to it because of the extreme em...
NO SPOILERS!!!This book recounts the life of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister. It is another biography based on a woman living through the holocaust. However, Nonna is not Jewish. She was raised according to the practises of the Russian Orthodox Church. Her grandfather was a Cossack and although he dies ...
I finished reading “The Secret Holocaust Diaries” by Nonna Bannister today. It was not what I had expected it to be but I was pleasantly surprised.I had expected it to be similar to “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank but it wasn’t, and for very good reasons. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl...
An inspiring and tender story of a holocaust survivor heartbreaking and yet heartwarming with lovely insights into a russian childhood traditions and memories that make this books a memorable read.I really enjoyed this story of Nonna Bannister a Russian Orthodox girl born to wealthy parents who fl...
13 years ago
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