As If It Were Life: A WWII Diary from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

by Ben Barkow, Klaus Leist, Philipp Manes

Philipp Manes was an average, well-to-do middle-class Berlin merchant, who considered himself first and foremost a German, and then a Jew. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, together with his wife Gertud. Theresienstadt, initially intended for the Jews of Czechoslovakia, later became the "showpiece"ghetto of the Third Reich to show the world that the Jews were being treated humanely. It was controlled by the SS but run by a council of Jewish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230613284
• ISBN13: 9780230613287
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"