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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hochstadt, Steve Hochstadt
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2022
• EAN: 9781644696941
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-694-1
• No. of pages: 110
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Karten
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoirs, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Judaism: life and practice, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival