Book chapter
Profile: Theresienstadt
Stealth Altruism, pp 76-86
2017
Abstract
Cultural historian Cara de Silva maintains that Theresienstadt hosted "an artistic and intellectual life so fierce, so determined, so vibrant, so fertile as to be almost unimaginable". Between November 24, 1941, and May 11, 1945, Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Transit Camp knew all too much of the Horror Story. The Help Story had a significant life-aiding presence at this transit camp. Prisoners, motivated by the Altruistic Impulse and Jewish Altruistic Tenets, drew on major cultural tools to help one another, and they left behind a legacy of instructive and inspiring merit. When in 1942 Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a prominent Viennese artist, art teacher, and designer, was sent by the SS to Theresienstadt, she filled her suitcase with art materials to provide art therapy and visual self-expression for the children, this a forbidden type of care sharing.
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Details
- Title
- Profile
- Creators
- Arthur B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Stealth Altruism, pp 76-86
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705331904721