Death and love in the Holocaust : the story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt / Steve Hochstadt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochstadt, Steve, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Jews.

Germany--Berlin.

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Messerschmidt, Kurt, 1915-.

Messerschmidt, Kurt.

Messerschmidt, Sonja, 1925-2010.

Messerschmidt, Sonja.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Berlin (Germany)--Biography.

Berlin (Germany).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 97 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Berlin

Theresienstadt/Terezin

Auschwitz

Slave Labor

Death March

Liberation

Munich

Maine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hochstadt, Steve. Death and love in the Holocaust

ISBN:

9781644696934

1644696932

9781644696941

1644696940

OCLC:

1260172637

Publisher Number:

99989828673