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Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.

Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator in France sending critical information to London.

The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife. In March 1942...

Have you ever wondered about the place-names that appear on Scotch whisky bottles? What language the names come from, what they mean, or if they are even real places? If you feel baffled about where to start looking for such information, then this reliable and informative book is for you. This...

This biography traces the Holocaust through the eyes of young Nathan Poremba and examines the difficult emotional and physical choices he had to make to survive. His father was murdered by the Nazis before his hometown went under deportation orders, so he made the heart-wrenching decision to flee his home in Southern Poland (Wieliczka) and leave his mother and sisters behind.

It was against all odds for Allied pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe to evade the enemy. British Intelligence service MI-9 infiltrated their agents into Nazi-occupied Europe to help these stranded pilots behind enemy lines and get them safely back to England.

24 führende Persönlichkeiten des NS-Apparats sollen für den deutschen Angriffskrieg und Massenmord zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. Das Feature von Jochanan Shelliem dokumentiert nicht nur präzise die Prozessabläufe, sondern gewährt durch Zeitzeugen wie Erika Mann, Gefängnisarzt Pflücker und Chefdolmetscher Sonnenfeldt - vielfach im O-Ton - einen profunden Einblick hinter die Kulissen. Berichte über intime Verhörszenen, das körperliche und seelische Befinden der Angeklagten sowie ihre Reaktionen auf die Urteilsverkündung erzeugen ein Bild von bedrückender Intensität.

Wissen Sie, was Ihr Nachname bedeutet? Und wie er entstanden ist? Warum heißt jemand Montag, Wackernagel, Rakete oder Merkel...