Cara De SilvaCritiques
Auteur de In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Critiques
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A transit camp initialing holding Czech Jews, then elderly German and Austrian Jews, and later Dutch and Danish Jews.A crematorium was built because the camp's death rate was high due to starvation and disease
Prominent Jews often sent here to a 'model ghetto' to deflect negative publicity. Because the prisoners were highly educated, creative and talented the nazis permitted a variety of cultural events. There was a lending library with thousands of books, Rabbi Leo Baeck (popular German rabbi) taught philosophy and theology; lectures, concerts and drama performances organized. Children were educated in athletics and arts for as long as possible because they were the future but... they fared the worst.
Prioritizing food for those who held the most physical work, left little for the elderly. Everyone was hungry; thought, dreamt of and talked about food all the time. Men, but mostly women put together 'cook books' of dishes they lovingly cherished. Mina Pachter was one of these women, a loving mother and grandmother, who passed along her 'cook book' to a friend in Therienstadt hoping it would reach her daughter. Many, many years later it does.