Tin Ring - and How We Cheated Death

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781904794509
• ISBN10: 1904794505
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Northumbria University Press

Summary

A moving tale of courage, love, tenacity, and hope, this remarkable memoir documents one woman's experience during the Holocaust. Enamored with a man named Arno, Zdenka Fantlova, a young Czech-Jewish woman, is separated from her soul-mate due to the German invasion. During a brief reunion, Arno proposes to 19-year-old Zdenka with a ring made from tin. Following Zdenka from Terezin through Auschwitz and Kurzbach to Bergen-Belsen, this heartbreaking account dwells less on the horrors of extermination camps and more on the compassion of the friends and family who shared in her ordeal.

Author Biography

Zdenka Fantlova is an actress and a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp. Deryck Viney is the translator of The Secret Vysocany Congress: Proceedings and Documents of the Extraordinary Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 22 August 1968.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Prologue: Travelling with an Invisible Map	p. 1
Grandfather	p. 10
A Fateful Meeting	p. 12
Moving to Another Town	p. 16
A New Little Sister	p. 21
School	p. 22
The Jewish Holidays	p. 26
Yugoslavia	p. 31
The Piano	p. 34
Dancing Classes	p. 37
A Trip to Prague	p. 39
Political Clouds Begin to Gather	p. 41
Fred Astaire - You Are My Lucky Star	p. 43
The 1938 Holidays and Dr Mandelík	p. 45
The German Occupation	p. 54
Prague and the English Institute	p. 59
My Father is Arrested by the Gestapo	p. 61
New Love	p. 65
The Jewish Transports	p. 68
AK1 and AK2	p. 70
Our Departure	p. 72
Terezín Camp	p. 75
Love in a Cellar	p. 80
Life in Terezín	p. 86
The Kitchen	p. 88
Marta and Her Nurse's Uniform	p. 92
The Woods of Krivoklát	p. 97
"Can You Cry, Miss?"	p. 101
Theatre in Terezin	p. 102
Dancing under the Gallows	p. 104
Ben Akiba Was No Liar - or Was He?	p. 109
Life Goes On	p. 117
The Potemkin Village Facade	p. 120
The Czech Theatre Carries On	p. 122
Esther	p. 124
Georges Dandin	p. 129
Terezín Is Wound Up	p. 131
Auschwitz-Birkenau	p. 134
Next Stop Eastward - Kurzbach	p. 152
Imaginary Feasts, a Needle and Other Wonders	p. 157
Nana's Prophecies	p. 160
The Death March	p. 166
Gross Rosen Camp	p. 172
Onward to Mauthausen	p. 174
The SS Man with His Revolver	p. 179
Nana's End, and the Journey across Czech Territory	p. 181
Bergen-Belsen	p. 186
The Typhus Epidemic	p. 190
Condemned to Death	p. 193
The British	p. 195
One Last Effort	p. 197
My Lucky Star	p. 200
The War Ends	p. 202
Sweden	p. 205
On the Production Line	p. 208
Epilogue: Goodbye Forever	p. 213
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