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“his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He may not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise—but only to his father’s state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Dan Kurzman’s The Bravest Battle: The 28 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an excellent source of background and I highly recommend it. Estelle Laughlin, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and author of the deeply moving Transcending Darkness, I will”
― The Goddess of Warsaw
― The Goddess of Warsaw
“Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity Edward W. Wagner, The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904–1950 Sakie Yokota, North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter Kim Yong, Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor”
― Flashlight
― Flashlight
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