Surviving Theresienstadt: A Teenager's Memoir of the Holocaust

by Vera Schiff

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476643304
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	06/02/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	267
Sales rank:	467,939
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Vera Schiff was a Holocaust survivor, educator and award winning author. 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 was nationally recognized for sharing her moving experiences of the Holocaust. Cheryl A. Fury is a history professor at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John) in Canada. She has authored and edited a number of works on the social history of English seafarers.
The late Vera Schiff was 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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
 1. Beginning
 2. Time Is Running Out
 3. German Invasion and Occupation
 4. Our Struggle for Survival
 5. Trapped
 6. The Fatal Blow
 7. The Loss of Dr. Tarjan
 8. From Bad to Worse
 9. The Incredible Selection
10. Beautification—The Great Charade
11. Theresienstadt in Its Death Throes
12. Liberation
13. Prague—1945
14. How Did It Happen and How to Go on from Here?
15. On the Road to Recovery
16. Takeover by the Red Dictatorship
17. Departure from Europe
Epilogue
Final Postscript—2021
Index

Editorial Reviews

From the first edition: Winner, Elie Wiesel Prize in Holocaust Memoir—The Canadian Jewish Book Awards

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