Schocken Books Inc | ISBN:0805210156 | File Type: PDF, 106 pages | File size: 36.Mb | Mar. 15th, 1994
Holocaust History: Children s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942 1944 A total of 15 000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp between the years 1942 1944 less than 100 survived In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates of Terezin we see the daily misery of these uprooted children as well as their courage and optimism their hopes and fears The ghetto of Terezin Theresienstadt located in the hills outside rague was an unusual concentration camp in that it was created to cover up the Nazi genocide of the Jews Billed as the Fuhrer s gift to the Jews this model ghetto was the site of a Red Cross inspection visit in 1944 With its high proportion of artists and intellectuals cture flourished in the ghetto alongside starvation disease and constant dread of transports to the death camps of the east Every one of its inhabitants was condemned in advance to die These innocent and honest depictions allow us to see through the eyes of the children what life was like in the ghetto The children s poems and drawings revealing maturity beyond their years are haunting reminders of what no child shod ever have to see This expanded edition of I Never Saw Another Butterfly is published in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D C
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