1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning
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The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, â€œWriting this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.â€ 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldsteinâ€™s astonishing historical memoir of that fateful yearâ€”when the Ustasha, the pro-fascist nationalists, were brought to power in Croatia by the Nazi occupiers of Yugoslavia. On April 10, when the German troops marched into Zagreb, the Croatian capital, they were greeted as liberators by the Croats. Three days later, Ante PaveliÄ‡, the future leader of the Independent State of Croatia, returned from exile in Italy and Goldsteinâ€™s father, the proprietor of a leftist bookstore in Karlovacâ€”a beautiful old city fifty miles from the capitalâ€”was arrested along with other local Serbs, communists, and Yugoslav sympathizers. Goldstein was only thirteen years old, and he would never see his father again.
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More than fifty years later, Goldstein seeks to piece together the facts of his fatherâ€™s last days. The moving narrative threads stories of family, friends, and other ordinary people who lived through those dark times together with personal memories and an impressive depth of carefully researched historic details. The other central figure in Goldsteinâ€™s heartrending tale is his motherâ€”a strong, resourceful woman who understands how to act decisively in a time of terror in order to keep her family alive.
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From 1941 through 1945 some 32,000 Jews, 40,000 Gypsies, and 350,000 Serbs were slaughtered in Croatia. It is a period in history that is often forgotten, purged, or erased from the history books, which makes Goldsteinâ€™s vivid, carefully balanced account so important for us todayâ€”for the same atrocities returned to Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. And yet Goldsteinâ€™s story isnâ€™t confined by geographical boundaries as it speaks to the dangers and madness of ethnic hatred all over the world and the urgent need for mutual understanding.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer New York Review Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 34500
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2013-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590176733

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	New York Review Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	34500
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2013-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590176733

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

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