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In Memory's Kitchen (Hardcover)

By: Cara Desilva (Editor), Bianca Steiner Brown (Translator) and Michael Berenbaum (Introduction by)

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Review

"This extraordinary book...is not a cookbook. It is a holocaust document, not unlike the poems and drawings created by the children of Theresienstadt....Writing down these recipes was an act of defiance and resistance, a means of identification a dehumanized world."

"In an effort to endure the hours of hunger, cold and terror at the camp, an anteroom to Auschwitz, Mina PSchter and other women carefully, sometimes painfully, wrote out about 80 recipes, using what pen or pencil and paper they could find, and later sewed together the pages....The recipes in the cookbook evoked memories of better days....[and] are emotionally powerful."

Publisher's note

The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The page are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Terezin (also known as Theresienstadt), the recipes give instructions for making beloved dishes in the rich, robust Czech tradition. Sometimes steps or ingredients are missing, the gaps a painful illustration of the condition and situation in which the authors lived. Reprinting the contents of the original hand-sewn copybook, In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin is a beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their heritage and a part of themselves. Despite the harsh conditions in the Nazis' "model" ghetto - which in reality was a way station to Auschwitz and other death camps - cultural, intellectual, and artistic life did exist within the walls of the ghetto. Like the heart-breaking book ... I never saw another butterfly ... which contains the poetry and drawings of the children of Terezin, the handwritten cookbook is proof that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people.

Annotation

Originally written in German by the women of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, this book is a record in recipes, poems, and letters of the lives these women left behind. Recipes include blue-plum strudel for Rosh-ha-Shanah, Gesundheits Kuchen ("good health" cakes given to mothers of newborns), linzer torte eaten with afternoon coffee in Vienna and Prague, and mazelokich (a layered matzoh and fruit dessert served by Czech Jews during Passover).

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