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Hanna Fischl, a Czech of Jewish descent, was a twenty-four-year-old teacher in a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia when Hitler's shadow loomed over Europe in 1938. No longer able to associate openly with her lover, Hans Feiertag, the talented, Christian composer whom she had loved since her teens, she began writing a diary at his request so that, once they were reunited, he could learn about her life while they had been apart. Written in a touching and candid style, Hannas Diary, 19381941 is the result of that request. Hannas Diary, 19381941 offers an intimate view of sweeping historical events that engulfed Europe and the world, evoking the creeping fear, desperate hopes, desertion of friends, and sense of isolation that Hanna Spencer felt as Nazism spread. The diary follows Spencer to England where she faced misery of a different kind and then to Canada, where, as a young immigrant with a PhD, she worked in her uncle's glove-making factory before finally landing a teaching job in Ottawa. Spencer describes her experiences lecturing on Czechoslovaki's history and its takeover by the Nazis, and her resulting celebrity on the Ontario lecture circuit. Written with clear wit and a sharp eye for detail, Hannas Diary, 19381941 is a must-read for anyone interested in the human side of the Second World War.

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"Hannas Diary, 19381941 helps us understand how and why European Jews did not see what was coming, why they did not all immediately try to get out, why so much of what subsequently happened was, in 1938 and 1939, simply inconceivable. Jennifer Levine, Literary Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto "This is a unique, complete story of a citizen of this century told without varnish but also without self-pity or resentment. It is told in a simple but powerful way and it is one that Canadians who wish to know the social history of the last century should be eager to read." B.B. Kymlicka, Dean Emeritus of social science, University of Western Ontario "A pleasure to read. The discreet record of self-denial, of sacrifices readily made for a young composer and his art, may surprise older readers and leave younger ones wondering about what they have gained and lost by their liberation." Erich J. Hahn, Department of History, The University of Western Ontario


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  • ISBN-13: 9780773522312
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Czechoslovakia to Canada
  • ISBN-10: 077352231X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jun 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 369 gr


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