Siena College Alumni - Erich Hartmann, Chris Gibson, George Deukmejian, Siena College, Michael C. Finnegan, Charlie Taaffe, Michael E. Long (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Erich Hartmann, Chris Gibson, George Deukmejian, Siena College, Michael C. Finnegan, Charlie Taaffe, Michael E. Long, Harry Flynn, Charles R. Boutin, John McEneny, Jack Cashill, William Kennedy, Gerald B. H. Solomon, Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, Wayne LaPierre, Henry F. Zwack, Gary Holle, Jack Quinn, Len Roberts, Mae D'Agostino, Constantine George Cholakis, Marcus Faison, Ron Vawter, Steven Lamy, Francis Bergan, Billy Harrell, Kathleen M. Jimino, List of Siena College alumni, Tim Christman, Ed Henry, David Hepp. Excerpt: Erich Hartmann (Munich, July 29, 1922 - New York, February 4, 1999) was an American photographer. Erich Hartmann, was born 29 July 1922 in Munich, Germany, the eldest child of parents who lived in Passau, a small city on the Danube near the Austrian border in which they were one of a five Jewish families. Erich Hartmann's family belonged to the middle class, and his father, a social-democrat who served during World War I and been imprisoned by the British, was highly respected. In 1930, only eight years old, Erich took his first photographs. Life became increasingly difficult after the Nazi takeover in 1933, including personal, financial, business, and family restrictions and the beginning of deportations of Jews to the first so-called 'labor camp' in the nearby village of Dachau. In 1938, two days after the assassination in Paris of German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath (November 7), skillfully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence occurred all over Germany. In the early hours of November 10, coordinated destruction broke out in cities, towns and villages throughout the Third Reich. In a single night, Kristallnacht (literally Night of Crystal) synagogues were destroyed, and Jewish businesses and homes ransacked and their windows systematically broken (hence the expression crystal). In August, Erich's family acce...