Ein Theresienstädter Tagebuch

Alice Ehrmann, a 17 years old Czech girl from an mixed marriage, was deported to Terezín without her parents in 1943. There she began a relationship with Zeev (Vilém) Shek, a Zionist and, later, a leading collector of Terezín documents. After Shek's deportation to the East in autumn 1944, Ehrmann began writing a diary, one of the most important of the Terezín ghetto. To conceal her notes, she wrote the German text in Hebrew letters. The diary is a moving representation of a reflective, highly intelligent young woman who fears for her lover's fate. At the same time, the diarist is a keen observer and offers a chronicle of the last nine months of Terezín. S he was also remarkably well informed about the decisions of the ghetto leadership. Alice also collected documents from the ghetto. When Shek returned, they married and subsequently emigrated to Israel. The article is an annotated transcript, agreed upon with the author, as opposed to other faulty reprints.

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