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Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations..
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Norbert Troller's unique account of life in Theresienstadt combines his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the camp with two dozen of his own drawings and watercolors Troller recounts his two years in Theresienstadt from early 1942 until September 1944, when he was deported to Auschwitz after the Nazis discovered he and other artists were smuggling out drawings that revealed the horrors of Hitler's "model" ghetto. Miraculously preserved by his friends, Troller's drawings and watercolors of life inside Theresienstadt add a compelling dimension to his story. His keen observations of human nature, of the experiences of his fellow prisoners, and of his own existence are embedded within a powerful history of the Theresienstadt atrocities..
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When Anna Kramer, a piano teacher in Los Alamos, New Mexico, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. As Kramer begins to play Weissova's music, however, some of her forgotten emotions resurface. Upon reading the dead woman's journals, which begin in 1945 after Weissova is released from a concentration camp, decades-old secrets that Kramer and her family have kept buried are uncovered.

"Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as Dissonance does, and fewer still inspire love so profoundly."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Hyssop

"A fine, clear, spare novel about music, the mysteries of the past, and the struggle to make meaning out of our present lives. In language that is always melodious, [Lisa] Lenard-Cook writes luminously of Europe and New Mexico, of the years of the last century that were its most brutal and the years at its close that were its most perplexing. Dissonance is a work of beauty."--Russell Martin, author of Picasso's WarDissonance has been selected for 2004 Durango-La Plata Reads! by the Durango, Colorado, Public Library.

For more information on Lisa Lenard-Cook, visit her web site at www.lisalenard-cook.com.
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Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel

Ruth Elias' magnificent memoir, an award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament, comes to America

"Simultaneously factual and breathtaking, Ruth Elias writes her incredible story into the reader's soul." —Buchmagazin

"Ruth Elias's book is admonition and indictment. It is a document that says more than all the well-meaning memorial speeches." —Hamburger Abendblatt

"Ruth Elias's report pierces like a stake in the heart of the reader." —Main-Post

"A 'horribly good book,' attests historian Michael Wolffsohn (author of Eternal Guilt), because it 'displays horror and nevertheless has a conciliatory effect.' But that is horribly false. For this woman appears to have assembled all the strength and courage of her years of silence in order once again to face the incomprehensible." —Sibylle Zehle in Die Zeit

"Complete horror... One can scarcely put down this book, and will be pursued by the images it evokes—images of omnipresent death." —NeueZürcher Zeitung

Now available for the first time in English, this is the internationally acclaimed memoir of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz, while several months pregnant. There she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being. . . . so that both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi "medical" experiment.

Ruth Elias, a young Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, survived three years in the Nazi camps of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. In this haunting testimony, she relives the day-to-day conditions and horrific inhumane treatment of those years. In 1942, Ruth along with her sister and father were rounded up for "resettlement." In direct and simple language, she evokes the terror of those camps from which virtually no others of her family would emerge alive. She describes in painful detail how, having given birth in Auschwitz, she and her baby became part of a sadistic experiment personally conducted by the infamous SS physician Dr. Josef Mengele.

Triumph of Hope also vividly recounts the aftermath of imprisonment, the difficult adjustment to normal life after the war. Ruth Elias's story is a remarkable portrayal of the emotional and psychological state of life in chaotic postwar Europe: from the desperate, futile attempts to track down family and friends; to the unabated hostility of former neighbors; to the chilling indifference of those who knew nothing of the experience of the camps. For Ruth, hope would have to take the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges, new obstacles awaited.

In her unsparing chronicle of the strength it took to survive the monstrous end of one world and the tumultuous beginnings of a new one, Ruth Elias speaks for the living and the dead with stunning directness and eloquence in a book to be treasured and remembered and shared.

RUTH ELIAS lives in Betl Yitzchak, Israel..
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Friedl presents, for the first time in book form, the art and life of renowned Holocaust artist and teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. A labor of love, painstakingly researched and compiled over many years, this deluxe volume is being published in conjunction with the Simon Wiesenthal Center / Museum of Tolerance and coincides with the American opening of a worldwide traveling exhibition of the work of Dicker-Brandeis and her students. The U.S. trour begins in Atlanta, November, 2001. More than a biography, the book contains over 400 color plates, including reproductions of rare art, letters and photographs gathered from museums and private collections throughout the world..
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