Expanded Second Edition with a Foreword by Chaim Potok and Afterword by Vaclav Havel

The ghetto of Terezin (Theresienstadt), located in the hills outside of Prague, was an unusual concentration camp in that it was created to cover up the Nazi genocide of the Jews. This "model ghetto" was the site of a Red Cross inspection in 1944, and the Nazis used the opportunity to show how culture flourished.

In reality, there was starvation, disease, and constant transport of inmates to the death camps. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through the camp between 1942-1944. Less than 100 survived.

These powerful words and pictures, written and drawn by the children of Terezin, share their miseries, fears, hope and courage.

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Published by Schocken Books