Dancing on a Powder Keg: Letters from 1933-1944, Poems from Theresienstadt

Ilse Weber

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Ilse Weber’s letters document the life of a young Jewish intellectual and known writer, as she and her family were gradually trapped in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Her poems, written and performed in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, became an international symbol of the camp and ghetto poetry. Ilse and her son Tommy were murdered in Auschwitz.

 

Ilse Weber’s letters document the life of a young Jewish intellectual and known writer, as she and her family were gradually trapped in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Her poems, written and performed in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, became an international symbol of the camp and ghetto poetry. Ilse and her son Tommy were murdered in Auschwitz.

 

Products specifications
Year 2016
ISBN 978-1-933480-39-8
Catalog No. 398
No. of Pages 350 pp.
Size 15X23 cm.
Format Hard Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem In association with Bunim and Bannigan
Translator Translator: Michal Schwartz
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