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Jana Renee Friesova (1927–2016)

Autor de Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor

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Nombre canónico
Friesova, Jana Renee
Otros nombres
Friesová, Jana Renée
Fecha de nacimiento
1927
Fecha de fallecimiento
2016-07-15
Género
female
Nacionalidad
Czechoslovakia
País (para mapa)
Czech Republic
Lugar de nacimiento
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Lugar de fallecimiento
Prague, Czech Republic
Lugares de residencia
Josefov, Czechoslovakia
Mnichovo Hradiste, Czechoslovakia
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Educación
Charles University, Prague (Ph.D)
Ocupaciones
professor
counselor
translator
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
journalist
Biografía breve
Jana Renée Friesová was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the only child of an assimilated Jewish family. She had a comfortable childhood, dividing her time between the spacious home of her parents in Josefov, and that of her grandparents in Mnichovo Hradiště. She was a baptized and practicing Roman Catholic and did not even consider herself a Jew until the German Occupation of her country in World War II, which began when she was only 12 years old. She was 15 in 1942 when she and her family were deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Terezín (Theresienstadt). Her father Richard Fries and her grandmother were sent on to Auschwitz, where they were killed, but she and her mother managed to stay in Terezin and survived. After the war, she resumed her education, studied journalism, and received a PhD degree from Charles University. She taught philosophy and aesthetics at the university until her retirement in 1979. She also translated works by Nikos Kazantzakis and Judy Blume into Czech. Her memoir, Fortress of My Youth (Pevnost mého mládí) was published in 1996.

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