Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
by:
Ruth Thomson (author)
Through inmates own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish...
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Through inmates own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world about the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews. Here is their story, told through the firsthand accounts of those who were there. In this accessible, meticulously researched book, Ruth Thomson allows the inmates to speak for themselves through secret diary entries, artwork, and excerpts from memoirs and recordings narrated after the war. Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust is a moving portrait that shows the strength of the human will to endure, to create, and to survive.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763649630 (0763649635)
Publish date: February 22nd 2011
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Middle Grade,
War,
Jewish,
World War II,
International,
Holocaust
The story of the Nazi's "model concentration camp" told through quotes from people imprisoned their and many visual artifacts (reproduced in color), including art work created by prisoners. An excellent textual and visual documentary, and an important addition to Holocaust literarture for young peop...