{"product_id":"helmbrechts-walk-1998-2003-susan-silas-9781835953952","title":"Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA record of multimedia artist Susan Silas's work \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelmbrechts Walk, 1998--2003\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, in which she retraced the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners from Germany to occupied Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003\u003c\/i\u003e is a memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of World War II. The march began on April 13, 1945, in order to evacuate Helmbrechts, a small satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work by multimedia artist Susan Silas is a visual representation of the 225 miles the prisoners were forced to march from the camp in Germany into the occupied portion of Czechoslovakia, then known as the Sudetenland. Silas set out to retrace the path of these women by spending twenty-two days on foot in Germany and the Czech Republic on the fifty-third anniversary of the march. Silas's documentation of this journey on video, in still images, and in writings is published for the first time in this book, which contains the original artwork of forty-eight archival color plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images are contextualized by a diary of Silas's journey juxtaposed with news clips drawn from the front pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e from the same days in 1998--thus drawing a connection between the violent events of the past and those being witnessed in the present. In addition to the originally unbound artwork, this book includes a survivor interview with Halina Kleiner, a preface by the Holocaust scholar Brett Ashley Kaplan, and a remembrance of the women who died during this march.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Silas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835953956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835953952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Intellect (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Susan Silas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997509693695,"sku":"9781835953952","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/helmbrechts-walk-1998-2003-susan-silas-9781835953952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}