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Death and Love in the Holocaust: The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt

Book information

Publisher
Cherry Orchard Books
ISBN
2021022438, 2021022439, 9781644696934, 9781644696941, 9781644696958, 1644696932
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1885401 bytes)
Pages
110\45
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 06:28:29

Description

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin. They were among a handful of couples who were married in Theresienstadt, and are possibly the only pair who lived to describe their wedding. They survived Auschwitz, and unimaginable slave labor in other camps. Kurt was one of two survivors of a group of death marchers in southern Germany. They found each other again after liberation, and eventually emigrated to the United States. As told to Steve Hochstadt as part of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine's project to record and preserve individual experiences of Holocaust survivors, this book captures Kurt’s and Sonja’s separate but always intertwined stories. Their accounts, as improbable as they are moving, tell from both sides how a loving relationship formed in persecution became an element of survival in the Holocaust.

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