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In Memory's Kitchen : A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
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Product Description A beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their hertiage and a part of themselves in this handwritten collection of recipes, proving that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people. Amazon.com Review Of all the documents of the Holocaust, this cookbook compiled from memory by the female prisoners at Terezin, a way station to Auschwitz, may be the most remarkable. The Terezin prisoners recalled and wrote down their recipes for chocolate torte, breast of goose, plum strudel, and other traditional dishes not because they thought they might ever need them--they were surviving on scraps and potato peels at the time--but as a testament to the future, so that their grandchildren might receive a fragment of their inheritance. The manuscript found its way in 1969 to Anny Stern, the daughter of Mina Pachter, whose poems on barracks life are also included. From Library Journal Full of bilingual recipes translated from broken German into English, the manuscript of this book traveled from the Terezin concentration camp, which served as a way station to Auschwitz, to one of the writers' daughters in Manhattan. Cooking is this book's subject matter, but survival is its theme; it is both moving and paradoxical that this material was collected by starving internees. Those interested strictly in a cookbook may be frustrated by the European measurements ("Practical Notes" provide conversion guidelines), but for readers concerned with Holocaust history, this is an important document. Its dishes might be used daily or at special religious celebrations, but as noted in the foreword, "[this work] is not to be savored for its culinary offerings but for the insight it gives us in understanding the extraordinary capacity of the human spirit to transcend its surroundings, to defy dehumanization, and to dream of the past and of the future." For Judaica and Holocaust studies collections.?Wendy Miller, Lexington, P.L., Ky. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review A monument to the women of Terezín who saw beyond indescribable horror and sent the food of their hearts to nourish ours. ― Newsweek The work of women whose memories were distorted by starvation, the book born in Terezín is both intimate and disturbing―a poignant reminder of a lost world and a spirit that refused to die. ― People Magazine Not a cookbook, though it has seventy recipes, but a Holocaust document, compiled as an act of defiance in a concentration camp ― The New York Times Those brave women contributed something of tremendous value, not simply an historical document but a lesson in humanity. ― Los Angeles Times A story of the survival of the spirit amid the horrors of the Holocaust. ― The New York Times Cooking is this book's subject matter, but survival is its theme; it is both moving and paradoxical that this material was collected by starving internees. ― Library Journal Their food comes not from the concentration camp, but from their pasts, from the days when they had cooked in freedom, when they had dinners to plan and holidays to celebrate. ― Associated Press The precious pages of Mina Pachter's cookbook are full of snapshots of life before and during World War II, inside and outside the concentration camps. ― The Review of Higher Education A story of recipes and resistance. ― Pbs, Jim Lehrer News Hour From the Back Cover The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The page are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Terezin (also known as Theresienstadt), the recipes give instructions for making beloved dishes in the rich, robust Czech tradition. Sometimes steps or ingredients are missing, the gaps a painful illustration of th
