Reminiscences of Frederick Terna : oral history, 2005.

Biographical Note

Artist.

Scope and Contents

Background: born Vienna, Austria; childhood and education Prague, Czechoslovakia; memories of Nazi occupation 1938-1939; imprisonment at Linden bei Deutschbrod labor camp October 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt 1943, description of intellectual culture among prisoners; deportation to Auschwitz 1944; deportation to Kaufering camp 1944, description of work and conditions; 9/11: witness to burning buildings from Brooklyn, ashes reminiscent of Holocaust; concern with political manipulation of tragedy, fear of totalitarian resurgence, discussion of far-right politics, religious fundamentalism and the invasion of Iraq.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Terna, Frederick, 1923---Interviews.

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