Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp
By (Author) Professor Emerita Ruth Schwertfeger
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Berg Publishers
1st September 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Second World War
Modern warfare
Biography: historical, political and military
940.5472430922
Physical Properties
Hardback
152
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 13mm
376g
Description
Ruth Schwertfeger This is the first book in English on Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in former 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 twenty women. Carefully translated into English, these testimonies form an extraordinary and moving collection.
Reviews
'A poignant Holocaust memoir with a unique feminist slant.' Booklist
Author Bio
Ruth Schwertfeger
