Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

by Jana Renee Friesova

Book Overview

Jana Ren e Friesov was fifteen when she was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech ghetto town of Terez n (Theresienstadt). Her memoir unfolds before us the poignantly familiar picture 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. Raised a Catholic by secular Jewish parents, she did not even know she was a Jew until the German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299178102
• ISBN13: 9780299178109
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"