Michael Berenbaum,De Cara Silva,Bianca Steiner Brown
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 pages 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 Terezï¿½n (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 Terezï¿½n, 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 Terezï¿½n, the handwritten cookbook is proof that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people.-- "The Review of Higher Education"
In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin