Theresienstadt

Schiff, Vera

Vera Schiff

Winner of the Elie Wiesel history of the holocaust award; this sensitive and moving book is an eyewitness account of the three-year struggle by the author to save her family in the concentration camp the Nazis dressed as the model camp. In fact it was the antechamber to the death housing many of Europe's most famous Jews who cared for their sick, schooled their children and retained their humanity. Defiance has many faces!

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Michael Schiff

How far would one go to save his own or a loved one's life? Riveting and true historical accounts of the plight, dilemmas and dreadful options of eight Jewish men and women in differing concentration camps (including a first report from a previously unknown camp in Belarus). The author breathes life into her characters and transports the reader through time to the very souls of her protagonists

Hitler's Inferno: Eight Personal Histories from the Holocaust

History

World

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe. Tens of thousands of inmates perished at the camp and many more were sent from there to die at Auschwitz and Treblinka.
 Presented in a two-fold format, this book features the poignant stories of individuals who were transported to Theresienstadt, as related by Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff, whose entire family was sent to the camp in 1942. Following each narrative, Schiff engages in a wide-ranging discussion with ethics professor Jeff McLaughlin regarding the events of the story, within the broader political, religious and cultural context of what is now the Czech Republic.

Bound for Theresienstadt: Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp

McLaughlin, Jeff

McFarland Company

It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but the individuals who were the subjects of its unrelenting Nazi brutalities. Written by a survivor about the people she knew and cared for, these eight stories fight against the depiction of Jews as victims and victims only, and individualize a tragedy that is too often abstracted into dates and statistics. 
 Amidst the dramatic narrative, there is a brutal honesty and frankness that makes these stories far more infuriating, sad and shocking than any fictional attempt to convey what it was like to be human in such inhuman circumstances. These biographies remind readers of the consequences of hate upon the fragile beauty and complexity of human life.

Lost to the Shoah: Eight Lives

McFarland

Product Description After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Touted as the "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes, as well as to deceive Red Cross inspectors, it was in fact a holding camp for famous Jews--in case the world was to inquire. For most, however, it was the last stop on the way to the gas chambers. Those "lucky" enough to remain alive faced slave labor, starvation and disease. Shiff's intimate narrative of endurance recounts her and her family's three years in Theresienstadt, the challenges of life under postwar communism, and her escape to the nascent and turbulent state of Israel. Review From the first edition: Winner, Elie Wiesel Prize in Holocaust Memoir―The Canadian Jewish Book Awards About the Author Vera Schiff is a Holocaust survivor, educator and award winning author living in Toronto, Canada. In 2012 she received an honorary doctorate of Letters from the University of New Brunswick for her contributions to the field. In 2020 she was awarded the Order of Canada for her illustrious career as an author, historian and public speaker who is nationally recognized for sharing her moving experiences of the Holocaust.

Surviving Theresienstadt: A Teenager's Memoir of the Holocaust

Theresienstadt: The town the Nazis gave to the Jews

Lugus

Hitlers Inferno is a riveting account of young and exceptional individuals locked in a battle against deadly odds in the notorious Nazi concentration camps.

Raj Pub Inc

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Theresienstadt

Theresienstadt

Hitler's Inferno: Eight Personal Histories from the Holocaust

Bound for Theresienstadt: Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Lost to the Shoah: Eight Lives

Surviving Theresienstadt: A Teenager's Memoir of the Holocaust

Theresienstadt: The town the Nazis gave to the Jews

Hitler's Inferno: Eight Personal Histories from the Holocaust