Pages:
15 + 14 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1985
Keywords:
Pinczovsky family.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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Jewish Agency for Israel.
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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
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Antisemitism.
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Cooks.
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Epidemics.
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Fasts and feasts Judaism.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust survivors.
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Kosher restaurants.
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Women authors.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Hamburg (Germany)
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Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
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Palestine Emigration and immigration.
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Prague (Czech Republic)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The bi-lingual memoirs (English and German) were written in 1985 in Israel. Judith grew up in an orthodox Jewish family, owners of a kosher restaurant in Karlsbad. Recollections of increasing antisemitic incidents. Life under Nazi German occupation. In 1939 the family moved to Prague. In 1941 they were deported to Theresienstadt. Judith and her older sister Ruth were placed in a children’s home, her father worked as a cook. Judith joined her mother and was comforted by her presence in the dreadful circumstances of the camp. She contracted scarlet fever. In 1943 they were deported to Auschwitz. Shock of arrival and description of unbearable circumstances. Judith, her sister Ruth and their mother were together in the barracks of Birkenau, their father worked under dangerous conditions as a cook for the SS. The author was selected together with her mother and sister for clearing-up operations after air raids in Hamburg, where they worked in the freezing cold under terrible hygienic circumstances. Air raids and approaching Allies. Evacuation of the camps and transport in cattle wagons to an unknown fate. Death march to Bergen-Belsen. Dreadful conditions upon arrival at the camp without food or water. Liberation and spreading of typhoid fever. The author survived together with her mother and sister, and after their recovery they were repatriated back to Prague. Judith went with the Youth Aliya to Palestine and was reunited with her older sister Esther.
Note:
English and German
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=424114&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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