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- ISBN 9781476685557
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2021
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
