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- Title
"People were literally starving for any kind of reading": The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, 1942-1945.
- Authors
Intrator, Miriam
- Abstract
Jews crowded into the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II were desperate for any avenue of resistance or escape, not only physically but also mentally. In the ghetto concentration camp Theresienstadt, the prisoner-run Ghetto Central Library, complete with bookmobile system, reading room, and branch libraries, served as a reminder that minds and imaginations remained active and free, even amidst devastating persecution. With the inclusion of Jewish book collections confiscated by the Nazis, it grew to 100,000 volumes. Brought to the Jewish Museum of Prague Library after liberation, the books are still being returned, whenever possible, to original owners.
- Subjects
CZECH Republic; JEWISH libraries; TEREZIN (Czech Republic : Concentration camp); JEWISH ghettos; CONCENTRATION camps; WORLD War II; MOBILE libraries; LIBRARIES &; museums; CONCENTRATION camp inmates; BRANCH libraries; JEWISH learning &; scholarship; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; HISTORY of libraries
- Publication
Library Trends, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 3, p513
- ISSN
0024-2594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lib.2007.0009