Staying Human Through the Holocaust

By Teréz Mózes

Ter z M zes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish people.

Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Ter z and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives. In June 1944, Ter z and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror.

Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Ter z and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552381390
• ISBN13: 9781552381397
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.4"