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Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story is an account by Ann Kirschner of her mother's experiences in the Holocaust, based primarily on a collection of letters her mother gave her, that she had received while in Nazi labor camps, written by about 80 correspondents.


Ambrogio Lorenzetti

He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in the Palazzo Pubblico (or Town Hall) of Siena.

Anna Phersönernas moder

Curatus Petrus is mentioned in his office in 1526, when he acted on the behalf of king Gustav Vasa during negotiations in Sala.

Belém Palace

After the assassination of President Sidónio Pais in the Rossio railway station, the ex-President's body lay in state in the Sala Luís XV (Luís XV Hall), until its burial.

The Sala Luís XV (Louis XVth Room), also pannelled, is highlighted by a series of paintings surmounted two shields of the House of Braganza and Orléans.

Bhima Ratha

The ratha is reminiscent of Buddhist cave architecture, such as Sala-Sikhara.

Caffè Florian

The Sala degli Uomini Illustri (Hall of the Illustrious Men) featured paintings by Giulio Carlini of ten notable Venetians: Goldoni, Marco Polo, Titian, Francesco Morosini, Pietro Orseolo, Andrea Palladio, Benedetto Marcello, Paolo Sarpi, Vettor Pisani and Enrico Dandolo.

Chella

Chellah (also known as Sala), a complex of ancient and medieval ruins on the outskirts of Rabat, Morocco.

Chellah

The Romans had two main naval ouposts on the Atlantic: Sala near modern Rabat and Mogador in north of Agadir.

Chulalongkorn University Book Center

It operates seven stores located at Sala Phra Kiao (within the university campus), Siam Square, Naresuan University, Suranaree University of Technology, Burapha University, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and Chamchuri Square.

Coup d'état of Yanaon

Just three days before the coup, the last colonial chief administrator of Yanam, George Sala, was recalled by André Ménard, the then Governor General of Pondicherry.

Cymbal-banging monkey toy

The Devil's Gift, a 1984 horror film, exhibits similarities to the Stephen King story and was later re-edited as the 1996 film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift is a 2005 documentary narrating the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled man born in Ghana.

Fantázia

The magazine was started in Šaľa, Slovakia by Ivan Aľakša, who served as its editor until 2006, when he withdrew to concentrate on publishing duties and was replaced by Juraj Malíček.

Friedrich von der Trenck

In Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt's Gift the character Charlie Citrine has written a successful Broadway play and a movie about a character named Von Trenck.

Giovanni Sgambati

He conducted Liszt's Dante Symphony on 26 February 1866 at the opening of the Sala di Dante at the Palazzo Poli, with 27 of Filippo Bigioli's paintings exhibited nearby.

Grădina Icoanei

The Bulandra Theatre (the Toma Caragiu stage, Sala Toma Caragiu), Ioanid Park (now called "Ion Voicu"), the Icoanei Church and the Anglican Church are located in the park's immediate vicinity.

Gustaf Lindgren

The list below shows some of his most public works, but he also made villas in Djursholm, Saltsjöbaden, Sala and Gävle.

Jacob Ericksson

Jacob Ericksson (born Jacob Abel Joachim Eriksson on 7 January 1967 in Sala, Sweden) is a Swedish actor, educated at Gothenburg Theatre Academy.

Jerome Sala

Born Jerome Sala Ucab on November 29, 1986 in Barangay Bacagay, Pilar, Bohol, Philippines, to Municipal Councilor Jaime Ucab and Ruth Sala.

José Ángel Mañas

Like in old pastoral romances, many of the characters from Caso Karen are depictions of real people: in "Karen del Korral" Lucía Etxebarria's personality traits are observed; "Carina Martinell" is Carmen Balcells; "Armando Sala" is Antonio Gala, etc.

Joseph Bishara

Although Bishara's film score work began with the Biblical drama Joseph's Gift in 1998, most of his subsequent work has comprised horror films like Unearthed and The Gravedancers in 2006 and Night of the Demons in 2009.

Luis Vega De Castro

Among his must relevant personal exhibitions was the 1973, Los Expedicionarios, Exposición de Carteles de Pedro Damián, Jorge Dimas y Luis Vega, Sala Rubén Martínez Villena, Galería UNEAC in Havana.

Lynne Spears

A Mother's Gift was a novel released in 2001 and has been adapted into a TV movie, Brave New Girl.

Martina Godályová

Martina Godályová (born 15 May 1975 in Šaľa) is a Slovak former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.

Mouzinho da Silveira

In the Sala dos Passos Perdidos, in the Palace of São Bento, Mouzinho da Silveira was homaged with an oil painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, while a comparable painting in Municipal hall of Lisbon, painted by José Rodrigues (executed in 1866) honours the politician, and in the Grão Vasco Museum (Viseu) a similar painting of Mouzinho by Columbano was framed.

MTV Romania Music Awards 2003

The 2nd annual MTV Romania Music Awards (Premiile muzicale MTV România) were held at Sala Polivalentă in Bucharest.

Mumbwa

The predominant tribes are the Ila, who speak a dialect known as Sala, mostly to the south and south east and the Kaonde to the north.

Napoleone Angiolini

He aided in the restoration of the Sala Farnese del Palazzo Comunale, including the restoration in 1852 of the monument to Pope Urban VIII, which had been vandalized by Napoleonic armies.

National Esperanto Library and Archive

The inauguration of its new see in the building of the State Archive was celebrated on 25 October 2008 by means of a public conference, called "Dall'Esperanto storico al multimediale" ("From historical to multimedial Esperanto"), hosted in the Sala della Resistenza, in the Ducal Palace of Massa.

Noticias Caracol

It includes a culture section called Sala múltiple presented by Lina María Arbeláez, instead the entertainment block, and a review of El Espectadors main headlines for the next day.

Núria Espert

As a tribute to this actress, the city of Fuenlabrada named a theatre "Sala Municipal de Teatro Núria Espert".

Oscar Sala

In 1946 Oscar Sala received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and went to study in the U.S., first at the University of Illinois, and subsequently, in 1948, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Oskar Sala

:Contains Paul Hindemith's Langsames Stueck für Orchester und Rondo für Trautonium (Slow Piece for Orchestra And Rondo for Trautonium), Sala's own compositions, dating from 1992 to 1995, and his soundtrack to Der Wuerger von Schloss Dartmore (The Strangler of Castle Dartmore)

Östanbäck Monastery

Östanbäck Monastery is a Lutheran Benedictine monastery for men in the Church of Sweden, located outside Sala in Sweden.

Paolo Posi

Nominated as architect to St. Peters and Knight of the Golden Spur, Posi helped design the Jesuit church in Sinigaglia, and the place of Abbot Farsetti in Sala.

Petit Livre d'Amour

6r depicting Pierre Sala dropping his heart into a marguerite flower (viz. the namesake of his mistress').

Raphael Rooms

Following Raphael's death in 1520, his assistants Gianfrancesco Penni, Giulio Romano and Raffaellino del Colle finished the project with the frescoes in the Sala di Costantino.

Šaľa

The town was first mentioned in 1002 in a document of Pannonhalma abbey.

Sala Polivalentă

Dinamo Polyvalent Hall or Sala Polivalentă Dinamo, a 2,500-seat multi-use indoor arena in Bucharest, Romania

Sala, Cambodia

Sala (also transliterated Srala) is a village in Kak Commune in northeast Cambodia.

The Nobles

The Simbul's Gift, by Lynn Abbey (paperback, November 1997, ISBN 978-0-7869-0763-2)

The Undertaker's Gift

The Undertaker's Gift is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and is set after the conclusion of the second series.

Wallenstein Palace

Pieroni studied the design of the new part to Wallenstein’s Castle in Jičín and the church of St. Jacob there, and the garden, Sala Terrena, and Riding School are attributed to him.

Youri Messen-Jaschin

He was awarded grants from the Foundation Mendoza and Yonekura Industrial and designed stage sets at the Sala of Conciertos del Ateneo and Teatro Ana Julia Rojas del Ateneo in Caracas.

Zoltán Bergendi

Zoltán Bergendi (born 21 March 1969 in Šaľa) is a Hungarian-Slovak former handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.


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