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Lisa Fittko
Lisa Fittko (born Elizabeth Eckstein, ; 1909 – March 12, 2005) helped many escape from Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The author of two memoirs about wartime Europe, Fittko is also known for her assisting German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin in getting out of France to escape the Nazis in 1940. Biography Lisa Fittko was born into an international Jewish family (Simon (surname), Simon, Ekstein) in 1909 in Uzhhorod, Ung County, Kingdom of Hungary. Her large family was active in many spheres of cultural and economic life of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One branch of her family was active in the Czech national movement, others were prominent industrialists and patrons of the arts. Johann Strauss II, the "Waltz King" was an in-law. She grew up in the company of her aunt Malva Schalek. After her family moved to Berlin, she witnessed the Nazi rise to power, and became involved in anti-fascist politics. She worked as an underground resistance figh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Fittko 1942
Lisa or LISA may refer to: People People with the mononym * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA" * Lisa, stagename of Japanese singer Lisa Komine (born 1978) * Lisa (South Korean singer) (born 1980) * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1987), stylized "LiSA" * Lisa (rapper) (born 1997), Thai rapper, member of K-pop group Blackpink * Lisa (French musician) (born 1997) People with the name *Lisa (given name), a feminine given name * Lisa (surname), a list of notable people with the surname Places Romania * Lisa, Brașov * Lisa, Teleorman * Lisa, a village in Schitu, Olt * Lisa River United States * Fort Lisa (Nebraska) (1812–1823), a trading post in the US * Fort Lisa (North Dakota) (1809–1812), a trading post in the US Elsewhere * Lisa, Ivanjica, a municipality in Serbia * Lisa, Ogun, a village in Ifo, Ogun State, Nigeria * La Lisa, a municipality of Havana, Cuba Arts, entertainment and media Films * Lisa (1962 film), ''Lisa'' (1962 film) or ''The Inspector' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticism, Chicago regional studies, African American intellectual history, theater and performance studies, and fiction. Parneshia Jones is director of the press. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. History Founded in 1893, Northwestern University Press was initially dedicated to the publication of legal periodicals and scholarly legal texts. In 1957, the Press was established as a separate university publishing company and began expanding its offerings with new series in various fields. Notable Publications, Imprints, and Series Northwestern University Press publishes a wide range of titles. In 1963, the Press published Viola Spolin's landmark volume, ''Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of Ukrainian-Jewish Descent
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Hungarian Emigrants To The United States
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Ukrainian Jews
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jews, Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century). Important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, arose there. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine is Europe's fourth largest and the world's 11th largest.Ukraine World Jewish Congress. The presence of Jews in Ukrainian territory is first mentioned in the 10th century. At times Jewish life in Ukrainian lands flourished, while at other times it faced Persecution of Jews, persecution and Antisemitism in Ukraine, anti-Semitic discrimination. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising between 1648 and 1657, an army of Cossacks massacred and took large numbers of Jews, Roman Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Uzhhorod
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Deaths
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1909 Births
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Stodolsky
Catherine Sylvie Stodolsky (née Ekstein; August 26, 1938 in Paris, France – January 31, 2009 in Munich, Germany) was a Jewish-American historian and teacher whose Ph.D thesis was about German female schoolteachers in the 1800s. She is remembered most for her work chronicling her family's tribulations in the Nazi period, most notably the resistance fighter and author Lisa Fittko Lisa Fittko (born Elizabeth Eckstein, ; 1909 – March 12, 2005) helped many escape from Nazi Germany, Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The author of two memoirs about wartime Europe, Fittko is also known for her assisting German ph ... and the painter Malva Schalek, both of whom have attained considerable fame. She is a member of the Simon-Schalek-Ekstein family and was writing a family biography based on three generations of women of this family of independent thinkers, artists and intellectuals. Her efforts at consolidating her considerable groundbreaking research on these and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siglinde Bolbecher
Siglinde Bolbecher (18 June 1952 – 6 July 2012) was an Austrian historian, exile researcher and poet. Life Born in Vienna, Bolbecher studied theatre, English, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In the early 1980s, she was co-founder (and later vice-chairwoman) of the and of the , whose fate she also helped to steer until her death. From 2002, she was head of the women's working group in the Austrian Society for Exile Research. Bolbecher was a freelancer at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance for several years and taught at the Federal Academy for Social Work in Vienna. She co-edited the journal for culture of exile and resistance ''Zwischenwelt'', the ''Book Series on Anti-Fascist Literature and Exile Literature – Studies and Texts'' and the ''Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature'', which was worked on for 15 years. She was particularly interested in women authors, and produced works on and with Stella Kadmon, Elisabeth Freundlich, Stella R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deleila Piasko
Deleila Piasko (born 2 May 1991) is a Swiss actress. Early life Piasko was born into a Jewish family on 2 May 1991. From Zürich, the eldest of three children born to a physicist father and dancer mother. She moved to Berlin aged 20 where she attended the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Stage After graduating from Berlin's Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin she had stage roles in Zürich, Frankfurt and Dresden. In 2019, she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna under director Martin Kušej. In November 2023, it was announced that she would take on the role of Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the 2024 Salzburg Festival alongside Philipp Hochmair. Film and television In 2018 she appeared in an adaptation of the Charlotte Link novel ''Im Tal des Fuchses'', produced by Degeto Film. Piasko appears in a 2021 adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel Confessions of Felix Krull entitled ''Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull'', in which she played Zouzou Kuckuck. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transatlantic (TV Series)
''Transatlantic'' is a historical drama miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel ''The Flight Portfolio'' by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseille, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023. Cast and characters Main * Gillian Jacobs as Mary Jayne Gold * Lucas Englander as Albert Hirschman * Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry * Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo * Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko * Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove * Grégory Montel as Philippe Frot * Corey Stoll as Graham Patterson Recurring * Moritz Bleibtreu as Walter Benjamin * Alexander Fehling as Max Ernst * Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as André Breton * Hande Kodja as Jacqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
