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As if it were life : a WWII diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

Manes, PhilippBarkow, Ben(Edited by)Leist, Klaus(Edited by)
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In 1942 German merchant Philipp Manes and his wife were ordered by the Nazis to leave their middle class neighborhood and go live in Theresienstadt, the only so-called "showpiece" ghetto of the Third Reich.

This model ghetto was set up by the Nazis as a front to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely.

The ghetto was run by a council of Jewish elders, and organized like an idyllic socialist utopia with theatre groups and debating societies.

All the while, this was just a holding post for Jews being shipped to forced labor and certain death at Auschwitz.

Philipp Manes' intimate diary is filled with fascinating details of everyday life in the ghetto.

Manes' voice brings us a step closer to understanding a little-known aspect of one of the most painful periods in the history of mankind.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0230613284 / 9780230613287
Hardback
11/12/2009
United Kingdom
English
304 p. : ill.
24 cm
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