Theatrical Performance, Survivor Testimony and the Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1963
The Prosthetic Life: Theatrical Performance, Survivor Testimony and the Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1963 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Lisa A. Peschel IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Dr. Margaret Werry Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance Advisor October 2009 © Lisa A. Peschel, October 2009 i Acknowledgements I would like to express my thanks to many people and organizations who helped make this dissertation a reality. My greatest debt of thanks is due to the survivors of the Terezín ghetto. Although in the dissertation itself I have analyzed only a fraction of the testimony I have collected, I am grateful to all of those who have testified to their experience and look forward to engaging with their narratives in more depth as this project continues to unfold. I am especially grateful to those survivors and their contemporaries who have granted me personal interviews in recent years, for they have shaped my interpretation in fundamental ways: Shulamit Amir, Edna and Arie Amit, Hilda Arnsteinová, Ziv Bacharach, Věra Bednářová, Michal (Maudka) Beer, Kitty Berger, Jiří Schmuel Bloch, Ruth Bobek, Miloslava Dohnalová, Michal Efrat, Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlová, Walter Fantl-Brumlík, Marianna Foltýnová, Rudi Gelbard, Helena Glancová, Martin Glas, Eva Gross, Doris Grozdanovičová, Anna Hanusová-Flachová, Eva Herrmannová, Jarmila Horálková, Margarethe Horowitz-Trentini, Helga Hošková, Anna Hyndráková, Zuzana Justman, Helga Kinsky, Greta Klingsberg, Dita Kraus, Grete Lendvay, Dagmar Lieblová, Anna Lorencová, Eva Lukash, Leo Luster, Max Mannheimer, Evelyna Merová, Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, Bernhard Morgenstern, Bohumil Porges, Irena Ravelová, Eva and Jan Roček, Eva Roubíčková, Zuzana Růžičková, Marietta Ryba, Alisah Schiller, Margit Silberfeld, Alice Sommer-Herz, Ruth Stein, Věra Steinerová, Edith Stern, Alena Sternová, Pavel Stránský, Věra Vrbová, Suzie and Freddie Weiss, Ela Weissberger, and Raja Žádníkova.
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