Life and love in Nazi Prague : letters from an occupied city
Bader, Marie2019
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Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Lowy. Ernst has fled to Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. The letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie, her increasingly strained family relationships, as well as the effect on the wider Jewish community.
Main title:
Life and love in Nazi Prague : letters from an occupied city / Marie Bader ; translated by Kate Ottevanger ; associate editors, Kate Ottevanger, Jan Lanicek.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Czech.
ISBN:
9781788312561 (hbk)1788312562 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318 BAD
LC class:
D810.J4
Language:
EnglishCzech
Subject:
BRN:
332306