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Boy 30529 a memoir

At the age of twelve, Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. In 1938 his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late, and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers. Over the following ye...

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Main Author: Weinberg, Felix Jiri (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2013.
Subjects:
Weinberg, Felix Jiri > Childhood and youth.
Jews > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic > Prague > Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Holocaust survivors > England > London > Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic) > Biography.
Autobiography.
Personal narratives.
Summary: At the age of twelve, Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. In 1938 his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late, and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers. Over the following years, Felix survived five concentration camps, including Terezín, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. An extraordinary meditation on the nature of memory.
Physical Description: xix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781781680780
1781680787
9781781683002
178168300X
Author Notes: Felix Weinberg was a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia who settled in Britain after the war. Despite his formal education having been cut short at age twelve, he won a place at university and later become the first professor of Combustion Physics at Imperial College London. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society. He was the author or editor of four books and more than 220 scientific papers. Internationally acknowledged as a leading thinker in his field, he was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of London (1961), both the Silver (1972) and the Bernard Lewis Gold (1980) Medals of the Combustion Institute, Fellowship of the Royal Society (1983), the Royal Society's Rumford Medal (1988), the D.Sc. Honoris Causa by Technion, Haifa (1990), the Italgas Prize for Energy Sciences (Turin Academy, 1991), and the Smolenski Medal of the Polish Academy of Science (1999), as well as being elected to the American National Academy of Engineering as a Foreign Associate in 2001. The Hugh Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Combustion Physics was conferred on him in 2005 (Institute of Physics). He died in December 2012.

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