Terezin : voices from the Holocaust / Ruth Thomson.

By:

Thomson, Ruth, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Printed book	IES Halmstad	Non-fiction	940 Tho (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		097807636496301

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.

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.