01433nam a2200241u  4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020003500069020002500104040001300129082000600142100002900148245010100177260006600278300003900344504004400383520060800427600003601035600003701071650004601108650003701154MeVbMML20250709121531.0ta130222s2012    meuab    b    001 0ceng d  a9780988624405(hardback)c21.95  a9780988624412 (pbk.)  cAJMdAJM  aB1 aHochstadt, Steve,d1948-10aDeath and love in the Holocaust :bthe story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt /cSteve Hochstadt.  aAugusta, ME :bHolocaust Human Rights Center of Maine,c2012.  axii, 106 p. :bill., map ;c24 cm.  aIncludes sources (p. 99-101) and index.  aSonja and Kurt Messerschmidt met in Berlin, married in Theresienstadt, and survived Auschwitz. In this book they tell their intertwined stories in their own words, taken from interviews done as part of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine's larger interview projects. The text directly expresses their experiences, reactions and emotions. By alternating excerpts from interviews, the reader moves through the stages of the Holocaust: Persecution in Berlin, deportation to Theresienstadt, and then to Auschwitz, slave labor, death marches, liberation, reunion, and finally emigration to the US.10aMesserschmidt, KurtvBiography.10aMesserschmidt, SonjavBiography. 0aHolocaust, Jewish (1933-1945)vBiography. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945vBiography.