'Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . .' With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the...
The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when theNazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitzconcentration camp as one of the few teenage inmates, and the ti...
For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to findin...