Death and love in the Holocaust : the story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt /
Hochstadt, Steve, 1948-
Death and love in the Holocaust : the story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt / Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt Steve Hochstadt. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Berlin -- Theresienstadt/Terezin -- Auschwitz -- Slave Labor -- Death March -- Liberation -- Munich -- Maine.
"Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt met in Nazi Berlin, married in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and survived Auschwitz. In this book, they tell their intertwined stories in their own words. The text directly expresses their experiences, reactions, and emotions. The reader moves with them through the stages of their Holocaust journeys: persecution in Berlin, deportation to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, slave labor, liberation, reunion, and finally emigration to the US. Kurt and Sonja saw the death of Jews every day for two years, but they never stopped creating their own lives. The spoken words of these survivors create a uniquely direct relationship with the reader, as if this couple were telling their story in their living room"--
9781644696965 9781644696958
2021022439
Messerschmidt, Kurt, 1915-
Messerschmidt, Sonja, 1925-2010.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Electronic Books.
DS134 / .D438 2021
Death and love in the Holocaust : the story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt / Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt Steve Hochstadt. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Berlin -- Theresienstadt/Terezin -- Auschwitz -- Slave Labor -- Death March -- Liberation -- Munich -- Maine.
"Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt met in Nazi Berlin, married in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and survived Auschwitz. In this book, they tell their intertwined stories in their own words. The text directly expresses their experiences, reactions, and emotions. The reader moves with them through the stages of their Holocaust journeys: persecution in Berlin, deportation to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, slave labor, liberation, reunion, and finally emigration to the US. Kurt and Sonja saw the death of Jews every day for two years, but they never stopped creating their own lives. The spoken words of these survivors create a uniquely direct relationship with the reader, as if this couple were telling their story in their living room"--
9781644696965 9781644696958
2021022439
Messerschmidt, Kurt, 1915-
Messerschmidt, Sonja, 1925-2010.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Electronic Books.
DS134 / .D438 2021