The art of darkness

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Wiesbaden, focusing on her experiences in Theresienstadt as a German-speaking Jew. Discusses the camp's cultural activities, which Opfermann views as being only to a limited extent an expression of resistance and more as being part of the Nazi effort to present the camp as a "paradise ghetto." Contrasts the privileged position of some of the cultural performers with the terrible conditions of most inmates, and the officially-sponsored culture with inmates' efforts, like Opfermann's own morale-building effort for German-speaking inmates. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)