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1945 account of woman's concentration camp survival

Maršálková, Ilsa. Za mřížemi a dráty: pravdivé kapitoly Terezín, Osvěčim, Ravensbrück [Behind Bars and Wires: True Chapters – Terezín, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück]. Prague: Bureš, 1945. 8vo. 23 pp. Original printed stapled wrappers. Good condition. Minor edge tears and creases of wartime paper. First edition of this scarce Czech eyewitness account recounting the author’s imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps and her ordeals in surviving. Issued shortly after the liberation, the work combines personal narrative with documentary elements, providing an early testimony to the atrocities committed. Inv. Bx1