KIK TEN BOOM, THE CLOCKMAKER ́S GRANDSON: TIMELY & INSPIRING READING FOR 2022 Five decades after Corrie ten Boom -the prominent Dutch humanitarian activist and survivor of Nazism- touched the world with the publication of her memoirs, it comes to light the until now unknown story of Kik ten Boom, her nephew and main fellow in the rescue of persecuted Jews and dissidents during the Second World War. REVIEW On May 10, 1940 the Netherlands (Holland) were invaded by Nazi Germany. Over the five years of occupation, the Dutch lived under the shadow of fear and took different positions in the face of the looting and oppression of the Third Reich: a great majority decided to adapt themselves to the situation, a shameful minority decided to collaborate with the enemy and an honorable minority decided to resist. Christiaan Johannes (Kik) ten Boom (1920-1945), inspired by his grandfather's spirituality and social ethics, took up the dangerous challenge of joining the resistance movement. As a worker of the LO-LKP underground organizations and under the pseudonym Phylax, he played a decisive role together with his aunt Corrie ten Boom in the leadership of the BJ Group: a secret network made up of his entire family, his girlfriend, many friends and dozens of anonymous fellows. It was in that network, with headquarters in the cities of Haarlem and Hilversum, where more than eight hundred persecuted Jews and political dissidents found not only hiding places, forged identity documents and ration cards stolen to survive, but also an affective and supportive community that helped them to face life and even death through the wisdom of love, common good and peace. Kik ten Boom, The Clockmaker's Grandson is a historical novel based on true events, the result of an exhaustive research carried out from Argentina, that rescues from oblivion a detained-disappeared under Nazism and hero of the Dutch resistance. It is a very timely reading for those who, dissatisfied with the deceptive system of injustice oppressing the world, seek alternative paradigms that contribute to the individual and collective construction of an authentic good living. "My love, once the war ends, will take up my studies, we will get married and have happy children... But in these days of desolation, while the Nazis are destroying our people, I could not do anything but to help save the most possible number of lives." (Words of Kik ten Boom to his girlfriend Hanneke, 1944) Booktrailer: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr08UKlN_Is Website under construction: https: //www.kiktenboom.com/ AUTHOR Guillermo Font was born and lives in Argentina where exercises the profession of Psychological Counselor and practices the art of writing. He is an active member of the Asociación Argentina de Counselors (AAC) [Argentine Association of Counselors] and a professional member of the International Association for Couselling (IAC). He is creator and director of Pacificarnos - Program for Dialogical Accompaniment of Human Relations. He has vast experience in providing his professional services to Spanish-speaking individuals, couples, families, companies, communities, and organizations from different countries around the world. For twenty-five years, he served as Pastoral Counselor in four religious communities and as Counselor in two social organizations. At the same time, he worked as journalistic and editorial collaborator in two Argentine magazines for twelve years, as well as director of a Latinoamerican publishing house and a Latinoamerican magazine for eight years. He has served as group coordinator, lecturer and teacher in Argentina and many countries of Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Scandoromani: Remnants of a Mixed Language is the first, comprehensive, international description of the language of the Swedish and Norwegian Romano, also labeled resande/reisende. The language, an official minority language in Sweden and Norway, has a history in Scandinavia going back to the early 16th century. A mixed language of Romani and Scandinavian, it is spoken today by a vanishingly small population of mainly elderly people. This book is based on in-depth linguistic interviews with two native speakers of different families (one of whom is the co-author) as well as reviews of earlier sources on Scandoromani. The study reveals a number of interesting features of the language, as well as of mixed languages in general. In particular, the study gives support to the model of autonomy of mixed languages.

Timeless, Bestselling True Story of a World War II Hero Corrie ten Boom was the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis. In 1944 their lives were forever altered when they were betrayed, arrested, and thrown into the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived. This is her incredible true story--and ultimately the story of how faith, hope, and love triumphed over unthinkable evil. Now in a beautiful deluxe edition, this beloved book continues to declare that God's love will overcome, heal, and restore. Because there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still, and no darkness so thick that His light can't break through.

Edgar Award--winning author Domenic Stansberry is known for his intensity---his dark thrillers, thick with suspense, in which the differences between good and evil are not so easy to decipher. The Big Boom is just such a novel: set in San Francisco, at the peak of the high-tech frenzy, just before the technology markets and the California economy all go bust. The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fierce, aquiline good looks---known to neighborhood familiars by his nickname: the Pelican. Dante's nickname---like the demons that haunt his personal life---comes from his family on account of his tenacity, and his large, Sicilian nose. Now Dante has settled into a new apartment in North Beach, hoping to put those demons behind him and patch together a life with his longtime lover, Marilyn Visconte, but before long he is approached by an old North Beach family in hopes that he will find their missing daughter---a young woman, a former sweetheart, with whom Dante had been involved years before---and his newfound peace is shattered. Dante's search for Angela Antonelli, though, has hardly begun when the corpse of a young woman is dredged from the bay. He soldiers on in his investigation, fearful that the missing woman and the corpse are one and the same. His search for the missing woman---even after he has been called off the case---becomes an obsession that alienates his current lover, but Dante follows the ghostly trail anyway into the heart of the financial district and the underside of the dot-com revolution. It is a quest rendered in the staccato prose of the genre, a style that---in Stansberry's hands---takes on a dreamlike cast, hallucinatory at times, blurring the lines between reality and Dante's own dark nostalgia. The Big Boom is a tightrope of a novel, a taut story about familial duplicity, personal greed, and the desperate pull of love even across the divide of memory.

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A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.