Through inmates own voices and artwork, Terezn 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 Terezn, 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. Terezn: Voices from the Holocaust is a moving portrait that shows the strength of the human will to endure, to create, and to survive."

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10+ years.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Candlewick Press (MA) .

RUTH THOMSON is a highly experienced author and editor of children's books. She has an MA in Museum and Gallery Education.