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OCLC. 26214051. I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 is a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They were created at the camp in secret art classes taught by Austrian artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis.
Voices of the Children. Voices of the Children is a 1999 Emmy -Award winning documentary film [1] written and directed by Zuzana Justman. It tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp. [2] It was produced and shown on television in the United States.
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps. Its conditions were deliberately engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners, and the ghetto also ...
Debórah Dwork. Debórah Dwork is an American historian, specializing in the history of the Holocaust. She is the Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and formerly served as the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. [1]
Poster for a performance of Brundibár, Theresienstadt, 1944. Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, made most famous by performances by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezín) in occupied Czechoslovakia. The name comes from a Czech colloquialism for a ...
Spouse. Pavel Brandeis. . (m. 1936) . Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis (30 July 1898, Vienna – 9 October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau), was an Austrian artist, designer and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. From 1919-1923 she was a student at the Weimar Bauhaus.
Petr Ginz. Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of sixteen when he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death upon arrival.
Vedem. Vedem ( [We Are] In the Lead) was a Czech-language literary magazine that existed from 1942 to 1944 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in the town of Terezín, during the Holocaust. It was hand-produced by a group of boys, among them editor-in-chief Petr Ginz and Hanuš Hachenburg. Altogether, some 800 pages of Vedem survived World War II .