Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín. Her memoir tells the poignantly familiar story of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships, worries with her companions over her looks, and falls in love.
Anne Frank’s diary ends with deportation to a concentration camp; Fortress of My Youth, in contrast, takes the reader deep into the horrors of daily life in a camp that were faced by a young girl and her family. But Friesová also tells of love, joy, sacrifice, and the people who shared in the most profound experiences of her life.

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Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín. Her memoir tells the poignantly familiar story of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships, worries with her companions over her looks, and falls in love.
Anne Frank’s diary ends with deportation to a concentration camp; Fortress of My Youth, in contrast, takes the reader deep into the horrors of daily life in a camp that were faced by a young girl and her family. But Friesová also tells of love, joy, sacrifice, and the people who shared in the most profound experiences of her life.

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Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

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Overview

Jana Renée Friesová was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terezín. Her memoir tells the poignantly familiar story of a young girl who, even under the most abominable circumstances, engages in intense adolescent friendships, worries with her companions over her looks, and falls in love.
Anne Frank’s diary ends with deportation to a concentration camp; Fortress of My Youth, in contrast, takes the reader deep into the horrors of daily life in a camp that were faced by a young girl and her family. But Friesová also tells of love, joy, sacrifice, and the people who shared in the most profound experiences of her life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299178130
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 09/01/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jana Renée Friesová was born in 1927 in Prague, Czech Republic, where she still lives. She taught philosophy and Jewish studies at Charles University in Prague until her retirement. She has worked with the Shoah Foundation, translated books by Nikos Kazantzakis and Judy Blume into Czech, taught yoga, and worked as a counselor.

Table of Contents

Dates of significant events

Map

Prelude

Scenes from childhood

Violet

Towards the unknown

Floodgate to the ghetto

The house in Q Street

Mädchenheim

Dancing on the edge of death

Love in a concentration camp

A taste of freedom

Afterwards

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