Embracing Watershed Politics
Arthur Carhart
Wilderness Prophet
Nursing
The Philosophy and Science of Caring, Revised Edition
The Archaeology of Regional Interaction
Religion, Warfare, and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums
The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Antonio Buero-Vallejo
Four Tragedies of Conscience
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism
After Monte Albán
Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Rocky Mountain Mammals
A Handbook of Mammals of Rocky Mountain National Park and Vicinity, Third Edition
Ecology and Management of the North American Moose, Second Edition
Rabinal Achi
A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama
The Incas
Big Wonderful
Notes from Wyoming
Boulder
Evolution of a City, Revised Edition
Uncommon Sense
Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture
American Women in World War I
They Also Served
Predatory Bureaucracy
The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West
Chilling Effect
A Lucinda Hayes Mystery
Colorado's Japanese Americans
From 1886 to the Present
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands
Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
The Boys of Winter
Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War
This Blue Hollow
Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859-1915
Common Ground
The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations
Pronghorn: Ecology & Mangemt
Ecology and Management
Native Pathways
American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century
Tell Me, Grandmother
Traditions, Stories, and Cultures of Arapaho People
City of Life, City of Death
Memories of Riga
Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide.
Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family; it is the speech of their muted voices and a thank you for their love. Although badly scarred by his experiences, like many other survivors he was able to rebuild his life and gain a new sense of what it means to be alive.
His experiences will be of interest to scholars of both the Holocaust and Eastern European history, as well as the general reader.