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Terezin : voices from the Holocaust / Ruth Thomson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780763649630
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940 22
LOC classification:
  • D805.5.T54 .T48 2011
Contents:
Terezin: Theresienstadt -- Hitler and the Jews -- The Germans invade -- Deportations -- Ghetto life -- Transports -- The ghetto grows -- Children -- Culture -- Beautification -- The end of the war -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi authorities turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people, many of them artists. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world, hiding the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.

Terezin: Theresienstadt -- Hitler and the Jews -- The Germans invade -- Deportations -- Ghetto life -- Transports -- The ghetto grows -- Children -- Culture -- Beautification -- The end of the war -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi authorities turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people, many of them artists. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world, hiding the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews.

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