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Death and Love in the Holocaust

The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt met in Nazi Berlin, married in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and survived Auschwitz. They witnessed the death of Jews every day for two years, but never stopped building their own life together. The words of these survivors create a direct relationship with the reader, as if they were telling the story in their living room.

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Hochstadt Steve :

Steve Hochstadt taught history at Illinois College 2006-2016, after teaching at Bates College in Maine for 27 years. His grandparents escaped from Vienna to Shanghai in 1939, and his research focuses on the Holocaust. His book Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich, based on interviews with former refugees, is being translated into Chinese.

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.

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“This superb text integrates the remarkable memoirs of two Holocaust survivors, who are also lovers, with exceptionally well-written historical context. Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt’s stories are harrowing, taking them from Berlin to Terezin to Auschwitz and on to liberation. Strongly recommended for use in the classroom at the high school or college level.”

—Dr. Elizabeth R. Baer, Gustavus Adolphus College, author of The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

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    Acknowledgments

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    Preface

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    Introduction

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    Berlin

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    Theresienstadt/Terezin

    25
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    Auschwitz

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    Slave Labor

    45
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    Death March

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    Liberation

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    Munich

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    Maine

    79
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    Conclusion

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    Sources

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    Study Guide

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    Index

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 1, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781644696958
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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110
Illustrations:
3
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644696958
eBook ISBN: 9781644696958
Keywords for this book
Holocaust; Auschwitz; Theresienstadt; Berlin; Survivor; Oral history; German Jews; Eastern Europe; World War II; memoir; interviews; Judaism; resilience; concentration camps; twentieth century; deportation; Nazis; slave labor; death marchers; Holocaust and Human Rights Center
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General/trade;
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