Surviving Theresienstadt

When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Shiff's intimate narrative of endurance recounts her family's three years in Theresienstadt, the challenges of life under postwar communism, and her escape to the nascent and turbulent state of Israel.

Cand nazistii au invadat Cehoslovacia in 1939, Vera Schiff si familia ei au fost trimisi la Theresienstadt. Naratiunea intima a rezistentei a lui Shiff povesteste cei trei ani ai familiei ei petrecuti in Theresienstadt, provocarile vietii in comunismul postbelic si evadarea ei in statul in curs de dezvoltare si turbulent Israel.