Jewish Museum in Prague

It is difficult to read and to feel the pain of the children housed temporarily in Terezin Concentration Camp who wrote poems and shared stories of their experiences before they were killed at the hands of the barbaric Nazi regime.

Almost all of the poems brought immediate tears. Most interesting is the fact that though this is primarily the horrific experiences of the children who were barbarically killed, it is also true that there were poems and stories of hope and optimism.

Lending

This book is a collection of poems and drawings by Jewish children who lived in the Terezin Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. There they had a secret art class held by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. These paintings and drawings allowed the children to take their minds off the sadness, death, and destruction all around them. The art class was an outlet for many of these children but it brought me sadness knowing that many of these children died. It is a shame so many innocent lives where lost!