A01=Elinor Morrisby
A01=Jana Renee Friesova
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Author_Elinor Morrisby
Author_Jana Renee Friesova
Author_Ladislav Rosendorf
Category=DNBH
Category=JBSR
Category=NHD
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Category=NHWL
Category=NHWR7
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Product details
- ISBN 9780299178109
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2002
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The story of a young girl who tells us how she and her family were taken to the Czech ghetto town of Terezin (Theresienstadt), what she ate there, how her friends died from disease, how thousands were sent on to Auschwitz, how her family was killed, and how she escaped the gas chamber. Jana Renee Friesova also tells of love, joy and sacrifice: musicians and intellectuals among the inmates who passed on their cultural heritage to the youth; Czechs outside the walls who smuggled in food; and her singing in performances of Smetana and Verdi, the most profound experiences of her life.
Jana RenÉe FriesovÁ was born in 1927 in Prague, Czech Republic, where she still lives. She taught philosophy and Jewish studies at Charles University in Prague until her retirement. She has worked with the Shoah Foundation, translated books by Nikos Kazantzakis and Judy Blume into Czech, taught yoga, and worked as a counselor.
