Bound for Theresienstadt (eBook)

Love, Loss and Resistance in a Nazi Concentration Camp

McLaughlin Jeff McLaughlin, Schiff Vera Schiff (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
224 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4766-2802-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe. Tens of thousands of inmates perished at the camp and many more were sent from there to die at Auschwitz and Treblinka. Presented in a two-fold format, this book features the poignant stories of individuals who were transported to Theresienstadt, as related by Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff, whose entire family was sent to the camp in 1942. Following each narrative, Schiff engages in a wide-ranging discussion with ethics professor Jeff McLaughlin regarding the events of the story, within the broader political, religious and cultural context of what is now the Czech Republic.

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-2802-5 / 1476628025
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-2802-8 / 9781476628028