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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Through inmates' own voices--from secret diary entries and artwork to excerpts from memoirs and recordings narrated after the war--"Terezin" explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
In the face of horrific living conditions, Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp--artists, musicians, poets and writers--fought back with art and music. Led by conductor Rafael Schachter, they re-imagined a Catholic liturgical work, Verdi's Requiem, as a condemnation of the Nazis. They performed for Nazi brass, singing what they dared not say. Six decades later, a new conductor and choir take Verdi's Requiem back to Terezin to bring the story...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"During World War Two, in the prison camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling. Over time, fewer and fewer children were left to care for the little tree, but those who remained kept lovingly sharing their water with it. When the war finally ended and the prisoners were rescued, the sapling had grown into a strong five-foot-tall maple. Nearly eight years later the tree's six hundred descendants...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The author shares his inspiring story of hope and innocence in an unforgettable memoir that recreates his experience with stunning immediacy. His story, and the many original documents and photos included, offer an essential contribution to Holocaust literature.
When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep...
6) Dissonance
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos, New Mexico, piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a womam she does not know. Hana's music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions, and the dead woman's journals, which begin in 1945 after she is released from a concentration camp, slowly reveal decades-old secrets that Anna and her family have kept buried even from themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When nurse Hanne Abrahamsen impulsively shields Steffen Petersen from a nosy Gestapo agent, she's convinced the Lutheran pastor is involved in the Danish Underground. Nothing could be further from the truth. But the truth is hard to come by in the fall of 1943 when Copenhagen is placed under martial law and Denmark's Jews--including Hanne--suddenly face deportation to the Nazi prison camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia. Days darken and danger mounts....
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother's will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In 1945, in the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist and expert typist, she was put to work in the Central Evidence office of the camp, compiling endless lists--inmates arriving, inmates deported, possessions confiscated from inmates, and all the obsessive details required by the SS. With access to camp records, she secretly began to record additional statistics...
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