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A Boy in Terezín

Pavel Weiner,Karen Weiner
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Author : Pavel Weiner,Karen Weiner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810127791

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A Boy in Terezín by Pavel Weiner,Karen Weiner Pdf

Written by a Czech Jewish boy, A Boy in Terezín covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezín from April 1944 until liberation in April 1945. The Germans claimed that Theresienstadt was "the town the Führer gave the Jews," and they temporarily transformed it into a Potemkin village for an International Red Cross visit in June 1944, the only Nazi camp opened to outsiders. But the Germans lied. Theresienstadt was a holding pen for Jews to be shipped east to annihilation camps. While famous and infamous figures and historical events flit across the pages, they form the background for Pavel's life. Assigned to the now-famous Czech boys' home, L417, Pavel served as editor of the magazine Ne?ar. Relationships, sports, the quest for food, and a determination to continue their education dominate the boys' lives. Pavel's father and brother were deported in September 1944; he turned thirteen (the age for his bar mitzvah) in November of that year, and he grew in his ability to express his observations and reflect on them. A Boy in Terezín registers the young boy's insights, hopes, and fears and recounts a passage into maturity during the most horrifying of times.

Terezin

Ruth Thomson
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Author : Ruth Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484409752

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Through inmates' own voices from secret diary entries and artwork to excerpts from memoirs and recordings narrated after the war, "Terezin" explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps in Czechoslovakia.

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun

Michael Gruenbaum,Todd Hasak-Lowy
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun Book PDF

Author : Michael Gruenbaum,Todd Hasak-Lowy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442484870

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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum,Todd Hasak-Lowy Pdf

When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.

Boy 30529

Felix Weinberg
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Author : Felix Weinberg
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781680780

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Boy 30529 by Felix Weinberg Pdf

A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor. In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a respectable Czech family, Felix’s early years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938, his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late—and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers. Thus begins a harrowing tale of survival, horror, and determination. Over the following years, Felix survived 5 concentration camps, including Terezín, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. Losing both his brother and mother in the camps, Felix was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at the age of 17 with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together. An extraordinary memoir, as well as a meditation on the nature of memory. It helps us understand why the Holocaust remains a singular presence at the heart of historical debate.

... I Never Saw Another Butterfly...

Hana Volavková
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Author : Hana Volavková
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Child artists
ISBN : OCLC:494108780

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... I Never Saw Another Butterfly... by Hana Volavková Pdf

A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezín Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

Salvaged Pages

Alexandra Zapruder
Salvaged Pages Book PDF

Author : Alexandra Zapruder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300205992

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Salvaged Pages by Alexandra Zapruder Pdf

This collection of diaries, written by young people during the Holocaust, reflects a diverse range of experiences. It contains excerpts from 15 diaries, and the diarists range in age from 12-22. The accounts explore daily events, ideas and feelings

Requiem

Paul B. Janeczko
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Author : Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763664657

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Requiem by Paul B. Janeczko Pdf

Presents a collection of poetry inspired by the history of the people in the Terezâin concentration camp during the holocaust.

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun

Michael Gruenbaum
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Author : Michael Gruenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442484887

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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum Pdf

Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust, in this National Jewish Book award finalist and Parents Choice Gold Medal Award–winning title, an ideal companion to the bestselling Boy on the Wooden Box. Michael “Misha” Gruenbaum enjoyed a carefree childhood playing games and taking walks through Prague with his beloved father. All of that changed forever when the Nazis invaded Prague. The Gruenbaum family was forced to move into the Jewish Ghetto in Prague. Then, after a devastating loss, Michael, his mother and sister were deported to the Terezin concentration camp. At Terezin, Misha roomed with forty other boys who became like brothers to him. Life in Terezin was a bizarre, surreal balance—some days were filled with friendship and soccer matches, while others brought mortal terror as the boys waited to hear the names on each new list of who was being sent “to the East.” Those trains were going to Auschwitz. When the day came that his family’s name appeared on a transport list, their survival called for a miracle—one that tied Michael’s fate to a carefully sewn teddy bear, and to his mother’s unshakeable determination to keep her children safe. Collaborating with acclaimed author Todd Hasak-Lowy, Michael Gruenbaum shares his inspiring story of hope in an unforgettable memoir that recreates his experiences with stunning immediacy. Michael’s story, and the many original documents and photos included alongside it, offer an essential contribution to Holocaust literature.

We're Alive and Life Goes On

Eva Roubickova
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Author : Eva Roubickova
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627798952

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We're Alive and Life Goes On by Eva Roubickova Pdf

"It's a terrible feeling to see the fate of thousands of people dependent on a single person. . . . It seems like a mass judgment to me: life or death." On December 17, 1941, twenty-year-old Eva Mándlová arrived at the Nazi's "model" concentration camp, Theresienstadt. From that day until she was freed three and a half years later, she kept a diary. At times sweet and personal, at times agonized and profound, Eva is a human voice amidst inhuman evil. Through Eva's eyes, the camp sometimes "even resembles normal life," as she makes friends and talks with Benny, or Egon, or Otto. But at any moment, anyone may be "selected" for a transport to "Poland." No one ever returns from "Poland." Never before published, Eva's diary is a true-life Sophie's Choice in which each day brings impossible decisions. As a Gentile man inexplicably helps her, Eva must decide who should share her bounty. As close friends and loved ones are sent away, she has to decide, over and over again, whether to ask to join them on their final journey.

The Children of Terezin and the Monster in a Mustache

Henriette Chardak
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Author : Henriette Chardak
Publisher : Max Milo
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9782315012473

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The Children of Terezin and the Monster in a Mustache by Henriette Chardak Pdf

At Terezín, many children sang for the Nazi officials and the Red Cross. They were used as propaganda tools, between 1943 and 1944, to make the world believe that Hitler had given a "paradise" to the Jews. Only around 100 of the 15,000 innocent people who passed through this transit camp survived. Ela Stein Weissberger, deported at the age of 11, is one of the few survivors. In Hans Krása's opera Brundibár (The Bumblebee) performed at the camp, she played the role of the Cat, the rebellious animal who attacks the mustached monster in the hope of winning the war! Her poignant testimony gives voice once again to the courageous, hopeful children who left 4,500 drawings, diaries and poems at Terezín. Like an internal road movie, the author offers a parallel narrative—she looks back on her own family history, her search for Ela, her anecdotes from the shooting of a documentary film, and she speaks up for all children targeted by hatred. Writer, journalist, director and stage director, Henriette Chardak has written biographies of Kepler, Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci... and an investigation into the health effects of sweeteners (Le light c'est du lourd, Max Milo, 2018).

Mischling

Affinity Konar
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Author : Affinity Konar
Publisher : Lee Boudreaux Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316308083

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Mischling by Affinity Konar Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick An Indie Next Pick A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Flavorwire Best Book of the Year An Elle Best Book of the Year "One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks--a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin--travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, MISCHLING defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.

Helga's Diary

Helga Weiss
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Author : Helga Weiss
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241959510

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Helga's Diary by Helga Weiss Pdf

'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily Telegraph First they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice . . . In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to their home, their relatives and all that they knew, and were interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezín. For the next three years, Helga documented her experiences there, and those of her friends and family, in a diary. Then they were sent to Auschwitz, and the diary was left behind, hidden in a wall. Helga was one of a tiny number of Jewish children from Prague to survive the holocaust. After she returned home, she eventually managed to retrieve her diary and completed the journal of her experiences. The result is one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. 'Anne Frank's diary finished when her family was rounded up for the camps: in Helga's Diary, we have a child's record of life inside the extermination factories. Shines a light into the long black night that was the Holocaust' Daily Express 'Resounds with a ferocious will to endure conditions of astonishing cruelty. Displays a rare capacity to remain keenly observant and to find the right words for transmitting . . . memory into history' New Statesman 'A moving testimony to courage and endurance. Remarkable . . . what is so compelling is the immediacy and unknowingness' Financial Times Helga Weiss was born in Prague in 1929. Her father Otto was employed in the state bank and her mother Irena was a dressmaker. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezín and later deported to Auschwitz, only 100 survived the Holocaust. Helga was one of them. On her return to Prague she studied art and is well known for her paintings. She has two children, three grandchildren and lives in the flat where she was born.

The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich

Saul S. Friedman
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Author : Saul S. Friedman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813184623

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The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich by Saul S. Friedman Pdf

In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin, outside Prague, was ostensibly converted into model ghetto, where Jews could temporarily reside before being sent to a more permanent settlement. In reality it was a way station to Auschwitz. When young Gonda Redlich was deported to Terezin in December of 1941, the elders selected him to be in charge of the youth welfare department. He kept a diary during his imprisonment, chronicling the fear and desperation of life in the ghetto, the attempts people made to create a cultural and social life, and the disease, death, rumors, and hopes that were part of daily existence. Before his own deportation to Auschwitz, with his wife and son, in 1944, he concealed his diary in an attic, where it remained until discovered by Czech workers in 1967.

Wildflowers of Terezin

Robert Elmer
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Author : Robert Elmer
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426715303

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Wildflowers of Terezin by Robert Elmer Pdf

Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger. A Danish Lutheran pastor’s complacent faith is stretched to the breaking point during World War II when he meets a young Jewish nurse Hanne Abrahamsen and becomes deeply involved in Resistance efforts to save Denmark’s Jews from the Nazi prison camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia—also known as Theresienstadt. Challenged by his evangelical brother and swayed by his own attraction to Hanne, Pastor Steffen abandons his formerly quiet, uninvolved life and hesitantly volunteers to help smuggle Denmark’s Jews out of the country before a Nazi roundup. Steffen finds that helping his Jewish neighbors is the most decent, spiritual thing he has ever done. As he actually does God’s work, rather than just talking about it, Steffen’s faith deepens and he takes greater risks in his sermons. When things go terribly wrong and Hanne is sent to Terezin, Steffen finds his heart fully engaged. He undertakes protests and rescues that are more and more dangerous, never imagining where it will lead him, or the ultimate cost of his decision to get directly involved.

Soccer under the Swastika

Kevin E. Simpson
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Author : Kevin E. Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538138793

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Soccer under the Swastika by Kevin E. Simpson Pdf

75 years after the end of the Holocaust, this book commemorates the millions of victims by sharing the stories of wartime soccer players, those prisoners of the Nazi regime who found soccer to be a means of survival and inspiration even when surrounded by profound suffering and death. The Holocaust was genocide on a scale never seen before. It is the greatest of human tragedies and a defining event in history which continues to challenge and confound human understanding. For many victims ensnared by Nazi Germany, soccer became both a show of resistance and a matter of life and death. In Soccer under the Swastika: Defiance and Survival in the Nazi Camps and Ghettos, revised edition, Kevin E. Simpson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through this little-known chapter in history, revealing the surprisingly powerful role soccer played during World War II. Relying on a trove of recently-translated testimonies and scores of interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, Simpson casts a penetrating light on the darkness of the Holocaust by celebrating the courage of those who found the strength to play the beautiful game under horrific circumstances. With the increasing loss of firsthand memories of these events, Soccer under the Swastika reminds us of the importance in telling these compelling stories. Thoughtfully written and meticulously researched, this revised edition is emboldened by new research, recently translated survivor testimonies, new photos from the era, and a deepened focus on soccer in the Nazi camps and ghettos, providing a more powerful narrative of soccer’s ability to provide inspiration and, at times, sustain life.