Defiance At Terezin
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Defiance At Terezin
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Author : Mel Meckler
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-22
Defiance At Terezin written by Mel Meckler and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-22 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Terezin was founded as a garrison town in the late 18th century. Located 60 km north of Prague Czechoslovakia during World War II Terezin, served as a concentration camp principally for Jews being deported from both eastern and western occupied European countries. Terezin was operated by SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann and his SS Nazis staff, the Gestapo and Czech police. It served to conceal Nazi-Germany's planned "final solution" finalized in 1942; as an interim ghetto prior to the transfer of its inmates to Nazis death camps, e.g. Aktion and Auchswitz-Birkenau. Part of Eichmann's planned cover-up required inviting concerned Danish and Red Cross inspectors to witness fake buildings and grounds and attend, as a finale, a concert of Verdi's Requiem performed by camp musicians prior to their departure on the day following. Bold actions undertaken by former composer Rafael Schachter arranged at great personal risk, to revise Verdi's original Latin choral to inform invited inspectors about camp fabrications undertaken by their Nazis oppressors stating in effect that "their day of reckoning will certainly come." Terezin's prisoner musicians and singers volunteered to memorize, sing and play Schachter's ingeniously reworded Verdi's Requiem choral from memory. Renowned concert violinist Bradislav Huberman, then living in Switzerland, decided to suspend his concert tour and career in order to contact and urge other European musicians, still free, to leave for Palestine as soon as possible with visas he had acquired for them and their immediate family in order to begin to organize a Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra. As a result approximately 1000 Jewish musicians and their families escaped Hitler's "final solution" to start what was later to become the world famous Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Acting In Terez N
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Author : Vlasta Schönová
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-16
Acting In Terez N written by Vlasta Schönová and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with History categories.
An unusual memoir by a professional actress in Ghetto Theresienstadt. Vlasta Schönová, or Vava as she was known, began her theater career as a teenager before the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. For a while, she was able to continue acting by passing as a non-Jew. After her deportation to Terezín, she performed, directed and wrote plays as a prisoner. Theater, she writes, invested her life with meaning and kept her alive, even in the most deadly circumstances. Based on a notebook the actress kept, Acting in Terezín is translated from the Czech by Vava's cousin, Helen Epstein, author of Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From. It features seven extraordinary theater posters from the Terezín Memorial's collection. Acting in Terezín is excerpted from Vlasta Schönová's memoir Chtěla jsem být herečkou (I Wanted to be An Actress), published in Prague in 1993. A Hebrew edition was published in Israel in 1991 as Lehiyot Sachkanit (To Be an Actress) and translated into English by Michelle Fram Cohen (Hamilton Books, 2010). Both books describe Vava's life before the war in Prague, and after the war in Israel. "A powerful, original narrative, pungently translated, that reveals the vulnerability of women during the Holocaust and shows the reader a broad cast of characters – from rescuers with moral convictions to those who sexually abused their charges." – Eva Fogelman, Ph. D., author of Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust "I saw Schönová perform Cocteau in Terezín in 1943. Today I see the play as a piece of kitsch. Then, I was mesmerized by her performance. I was 18 years old and for an hour or so I was lifted out of the camp environment to somewhere in Paris... free." –Lily Reiser, MSW and Terezín survivor "As an artist, what I find most powerful in this memoir is how Vava transformed impossibly hopeless experience into something not only livable but meaningful through theater." – Rochelle Rubinstein
The Last Ghetto
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Author : Anna Hájková
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-05
The Last Ghetto written by Anna Hájková and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-05 with History categories.
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age, ethnicity, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezín, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility, agency and its boundaries, and belonging.
Somewhere There Is Still A Sun
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Author : Michael Gruenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-04-25
Somewhere There Is Still A Sun written by Michael Gruenbaum and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with History categories.
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.
Representing Childhood And Atrocity
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Author : Victoria Nesfield
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Representing Childhood And Atrocity written by Victoria Nesfield and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to the victims. Yet to confront children with the fact of widescale violence without resolution is to confront them with realities that may be emotionally disturbing and even damaging. Despite these challenges, however, there exists a considerable body of work for and about children that addresses atrocity. To examine the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity, this collection brings together original essays by an international group of scholars working in the fields of child studies, children's literature, comics studies, education, English literature, and Holocaust, genocide, and memory studies. It covers a broad geographical range and includes works by established authors and emerging voices.
A Study Guide For Celeste Raspanti S I Never Saw Another Butterfly
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016
A Study Guide For Celeste Raspanti S I Never Saw Another Butterfly written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Soccer Under The Swastika
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Author : Kevin E. Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Soccer Under The Swastika written by Kevin E. Simpson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with History categories.
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.
Daring To Resist
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Author : David Engel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Daring To Resist written by David Engel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Moving first-hand accounts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are supported by photographs, ritual objects, and art produced clandestinely by Jews in ghettos and camps. Several entries are from well-known resistance figures such as Abba Kovner, the first to raise a cry for armed Jewish resistance; Rabbi Leo Baeck, who spearheaded attempts to save German Jewry; and Dr. Janusz Korczak, who protected 200 orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. This anthology of written and visual materials illustrates the tremendous resourcefulness, diverse methods, and daring initiatives of Jewish men and women in occupied countries who risked their lives defying their Nazi oppressors, saving their fellow Jews, and preserving their Jewish traditions.
Theresienstadt
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Author : Dede Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-20
Theresienstadt written by Dede Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-20 with Art categories.
“Art became an essential, perhaps the only worthwhile part of life in Terezin. The artistic struggle helped the prisoners to affirm their own humanity and to keep their spirits alive." Jutta TraghtzRafael Schacter called Verdis Requim, the Defiant Requiem because he told his choir it is “Their way of fighting back”. He said, “We take the high ground, we stand above, we have a vision of high art.” He used Verdi's Requiem as the pinnacle of defiance.He told the choir “We sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.
Symphony
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Symphony written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Orchestra categories.