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The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadików
Professor Debórah Dwork lecture
Thursday, February 28 at 7:00pm
HCNC
121 Steuart Street, lower level
RSVP required by Monday, February 25.
RSVP to 415/777-9060 x207 or rsvp@hcnc.org
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“With simple means, without any ‘title,’ this book should in distant times always be in your memory.”
An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in September 1944. He presented the album to a fellow prisoner, twenty-one-year-old Marianka Zadików. Over the next several months, as the Nazis pressed forward with mass deportations from Terezín to Auschwitz, Marianka began to collect inscriptions and sketches from her fellow inmates. |
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Marianka Zadików’s album is a poignant document from the last months of the Holocaust. The words and images inscribed here—by children and grandparents, factory workers and farmhands, professionals and intellectuals, musicians and artists—reflect both joy and trepidation. They include passages of remembered verse, lovingly executed drawings, and hurried farewells on the eve of transport to Auschwitz.
An introduction by Professor Dwork tells the story of the Terezín camp and how Marianka and her family fared while imprisoned there.
Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her books include Children With A Star, Auschwitz, Holocaust: A History, and The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow. Debórah Dwork has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
The Alfred Manovill Memorial Lecture is made possible by a generous gift from the Tauber Family Foundation.
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