Theresienstadt Diary (in 4 parts)

A detailed personal account of life under the Nazis since 1934 (12 pages) and in the ghetto during the final months of World War II and of liberation by Eva Noack-Mosse, a member of the well-known Berlin Mosse family. Before her deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in February of 1945, she moved together with her non-Jewish husband from Berlin to a small Bavarian village in 1941. In Theresienstadt camp she worked since end of February 1945 in the Central Office and therefore had easy access to all documents. From her relatives also sent to Theresienstadt before, only Martha Mosse, a cousin of her father, was left at the time Eva arrived, the others had died or been deported. In 1975 Eva Noack-Mosse did a second edition using additional notes from 1945 and comparing her numbers with post-war research findings, esp. H.G. Adler's book "Theresienstadt". Her post-war remarks she put in brackets. The diary is organized according to Noack-Mosses's list of contents, e.g.: order by Gestapo for urgent employment of labor, assembling in Augsburg, arrival at Theresienstadt, the first days, office work, description of the city, diseases, re-found friends & their experiences, What is prominent?, statistics of Theresienstadt, camp children, the SS, Everything is a fake life, gift parcels, departure of the Danes, arrival of 12,000 KZ inmates, danger of epidemics, Red Cross takeover, Mussolini's and Hitler's deaths, the last days before capitulation, the last SS men leave, the Czech take over the camp, first the Russians, then the Americans fight against epidemics, preparations for the closure of the camp, going home. The last part contains 12 pages of personal documents and photos of Eva Noack-Mosse, preluded by an index of them.