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Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of
terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience
increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of
deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the
chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love
again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Loewy. Ernst has fled to
Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt
letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of
heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. The
letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish
life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie,
her increasingly strained family relationships, as well as the
effect on the wider Jewish community whilst Heydrich, one of the
key architects and executioners of the Holocaust and Reich
Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, established the Theresienstadt
ghetto and began to organize the deportation of Jews. Through this
deeply personal and moving account, the realities of Jewish life in
Heydrich's Prague are dramatically revealed.
Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of
terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience
increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of
deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the
chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love
again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Loewy. Ernst has fled to
Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt
letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of
heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. The
letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish
life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie,
her increasingly strained family relationships, as well as the
effect on the wider Jewish community whilst Heydrich, one of the
key architects and executioners of the Holocaust and Reich
Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, established the Theresienstadt
ghetto and began to organize the deportation of Jews. Through this
deeply personal and moving account, the realities of Jewish life in
Heydrich's Prague are dramatically revealed.
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