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Title

• The Theresienstadt deception : the concentration camp the Nazis created to deceive the world / by Vera Schiff ; annotated and edited with an introduction by Professor Cheryl Fury ; with a preface by Murry Sidlin.

Author

Schiff, Vera, 1926-

Publication

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, [2012]

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Additional Authors

Fury, Cheryl A., 1966-

Description

xv, 186 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Schiff, born in Prague in 1926, is a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto; all of her extended family perished in the Holocaust. Presents a social history of the Theresienstadt ghetto, based partly on her own experiences. This ghetto was established by the Nazis with the aim of deceiving the world in regard to the fate of European Jews. Many important Jewish personalities were interned there. In 1944, an International Red Cross Commission visited Theresienstadt. In preparation for the visit, the Nazis deported all the sick or extremely emaciated inmates to Auschwitz and elsewhere, held rehearsals with children on how to answer the questions of the Commission members, arranged concerts to be held, etc. Describes the composition of the ghetto population, its internal administration, and its institutions (including the library and the bank). There was only one attempt to escape from Theresienstadt during its existence, and no attempts of resistance. However, there was a rich cultural life in the ghetto, care for the children, and even love and sex. Dwells on the health care system in Theresienstadt, especially on the Vrchlabí hospital (where Schiff herself worked). Describes, also, the ghetto's liberation in May 1945.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Concentration camp inmates > Terezín (Ústecký kraj) > Social conditions
• Concentration camp inmates as artists
• Czech Republic
• Czech Republic > Ethnic relations
• Czech Republic > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Ethnic relations
• Geschichte
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Terezin (Ústecký kraj)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Internment camp inmates as artists > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Jewish children in the Holocaust
• Jewish children in the Holocaust > Terezin (Ústecký kraj)
• Jewish children in the Holocaust > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Jews
• Jews > Terezín (Ústecký kraj) > History > 20th century
• Jews > Terezín (Ústecký kraj) > History > 20th century
• Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt
• Nazi concentration camp inmates > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Nazi concentration camp theater > Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
• Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
• Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) > History > 20th century
• Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) > History

Genre/Form

• Erlebnisbericht.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theresienstadt: an overview -- Structure & organization of the camp -- The children of Terezin -- The artists of Theresienstadt -- Health care -- Relationships in Terezin -- Liberation -- Seventy years on: returning to Theresienstadt.

ISBN

• 9780773440593
• 0773440593
• 0773440615
• 9780773440616

LCCN

2012040491

OCLC

812122339

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library