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- Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín. Her memoir tells the poignantly familiar story of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships, worries with her companions over her looks, and falls in love.
Anne Frank’s diary ends with deportation to a concentration camp; Fortress of My Youth, in contrast, takes the reader deep into the horrors of daily life in a camp that were faced by a young girl and her family. But Friesová also tells of love, joy, sacrifice, and the people who shared in the most profound experiences of her life.
Table of Contents
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- Date of Significant events
- pp. viii-ix
- Scenes from childhood
- pp. 3-20
- Towards the unknown
- pp. 63-70
- Floodgate to the ghetto
- pp. 71-79
- The house in Q Street
- pp. 80-93
- Mädchenheim
- pp. 94-134
- Dancing on the edge of death
- pp. 135-153
- Love in a concentration camp
- pp. 154-170
- A taste of freedom
- pp. 171-181
- Afterwards
- pp. 182-190
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299178130
Related ISBN(s)
9780299178109, 9780299178147
MARC Record
OCLC
787844272
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2012-09-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011