Death and Love in the Holocaust

The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt

Steve Hochstadt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

110 Seiten

2022
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-694-1 (ISBN)

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Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt met in Nazi Berlin, married in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and survived Auschwitz. In this book, they tell their intertwined stories in their own words. The text directly expresses their experiences, reactions, and emotions. The reader moves with them through the stages of their Holocaust journeys: persecution in Berlin, deportation to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, slave labor, liberation, reunion, and finally emigration to the US. Kurt and Sonja saw the death of Jews every day for two years, but they never stopped creating their own lives. The spoken words of these survivors create a uniquely direct relationship with the reader, as if this couple were telling their story in their living room.

Steve Hochstadt taught history at Illinois College 2006-2016, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. His research has focused on the Holocaust. Sources of the Holocaust is a documents collection widely used in Holocaust courses. Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich tells the story of the flight of Jewish refugees from Central Europe to China. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum and treasurer of the Sino-Judaic Institute, a pioneer in education about Chinese-Jewish relations for the past 30 years. Many of his weekly columns for the Jacksonville (IL) Journal-Courier appear in Freedom of the Press in Small-Town America: My Opinions.

Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface, by Sarah Cushman

Introduction
Berlin
Theresienstadt/Terezin
Auschwitz
Slave Labor
Death March
Liberation
Munich
Maine
Conclusion

Bibliography
Study Guide
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-10	1-64469-694-0 / 1644696940
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-694-1 / 9781644696941
Zustand	Neuware