Rose Hip Kisses

There’s a book that’s unique in the literature of the Holocaust, the most unlikely book you’d ever expect to find coming from this reign of hunger, deprivation, and death: a cookbook. Yet that’s precisely what Mina Pachter and her friends wrote to pass the time (and remember pleasanter times) while they were interned at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Twenty-five years after her death in the camp, Mina’s manuscript reached her daughter, Anny Stern, who arranged for the handwritten ma