Borrowed Time: Survivors of Nazi Terez? Remember

Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terez?, Czech Republic.

Dennis Carlyle Darling has photographed and interviewed hundreds of Holocaust survivors who spent time at the German transit camp and ghetto at Terez?, a former eighteenth-century military garrison located north of Prague. Many of the prisoners were kept there until they could be transported to Auschwitz or other camps, but unlike German captives elsewhere, they were allowed to participate in creative activities that the Nazis used for propaganda purposes to show the world how well they were treating Jews. Although it was not classified as a "death camp," more than 33,000 prisoners died at Terez? from hunger, disease, and mistreatment.

In Borrowed Time, Darling reveals Terez? as a place of painful contradictions, through striking and intimate portraits that retrace time and place with his subjects, the last remnants of those who survived the experience. Returning to sites of painful memories with his interview subjects to photograph them, Darling respectfully depicts these survivors and tells their stories.

Author: Dennis Carlyle Darling
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/02/2024
Series: Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture
Pages: 288
Weight: 4.88lbs
Size: 10.83h x 12.60w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781477328163