My Years in Theresienstadt: How One Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Gerty Spies

Book Overview

She has learned to forgive, but she can never forget. And neither can we.Gerty Spies was born in 1897 at Trier into a Jewish family whose ancestors had lived in Germany for centuries. Separated from her family by the Nazis, she was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. It was a peculiar place: publicized as a retirement city, a Nazi propaganda showplace where Jews could sit out the war. But it was actually a way station for those destined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573921416
• ISBN13: 9781573921411
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"