Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp

Schwertfeger, Ruth

Oxford / New York: Berg, 1989. Hardcover. Orange cloth, gilt letters on spine, black and BW illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 152 pp., BW illus. G+ (Ex-art library, with spine tear on dj underneath mylar; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; pages are tanning lightly in margins.). Item #157748
ISBN: 0854961925

"The first book in English on Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia and the only one of its kind which focuses on the women who were forced to live in it. Interwoven with the description of everyday life in the camp are memoirs and poems selected from the work of over 20 women, most of it never published before. ... Beyhond their indisputable value as documents of the Holocaust, these memoirs, poems and drawings offer an articulate and cohesive account of the particular kind of suffering imposed by the Nazis on the inmates of Theresienstadt and specifically on women during the cam's infamous three-and-a-half year history." (dj).