ornaments
snow flowers hungarian jewish women in an airplane factory markkleeberg germany
snow flowers is a rare study by one of the 1300 hungarian jewish inmates who were eased out by the ss to junkers company to produce airplane parts in markkleeberg germany . working conditions and profits shed light on slave labor establishments . describing prisoners ways of coping their spiritual world addresses the question of how it was possible to live in the camp . a recurring theme is the experience of the author and her teenage sister . the 250 french political resistance fighters in the camp shared the death march and the anguish of the allied bombing . russian soldiers bent on sexual exploitation were the first disappointment after liberation . homecoming and life of the survivor are recounted in the concluding chapters . the eight years of research on this book was prompted by the query of a markkleeberg school teacher . german archival documents songs diaries written in the camp and the testimonies of 110 fellow survivors provide a collective and a personal narrative . the book is part of a traveling exhibit the forgotten women of buchenwald . dr. stessel is a retired librarian from the new york public library .