Contributions

  • Křížková, Marie Rút. - Contributor
  • Kotouč, Kurt Jiří. - Contributor
  • Ornest, Zdeněk. - Contributor
  • Novak, R. Elizabeth. - Contributor
  • Wilson, Paul R. 1941- - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

49,750 words, Guess

Page Count

199 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing3659644
  • Goodreads58725

Classifications

  • DDC940.53/18
  • LCCD805.C9 J413 1995

Alternate Titles

  • Vedem.

Description

From 1942 to 1944, a group of 13- to 15-year-old Jewish boys secretly produced a weekly magazine called Vedem (In the Lead) at the model concentration camp, Theresienstadt ("Terezin" in Czech). The writers, artists, and editors put together the issues and copied them by hand behind the blackout shades of their cellblock, which they affectionately called the "Republic of Shkid.". The material was saved by one of the handful of boys who survived the Holocaust, but it was suppressed for fifty years in Czechoslovakia. Now, for the first time, these works are being published simultaneously in English, Czech, and German. Vedem is a poignant glimpse at the world of boys torn from their comfortable childhoods, separated from their families, ultimately to perish in the Nazi death machine.

Subjects

Genres

  • Translations into English.
  • Personal narratives.
  • Literary collections.

Other Editions

  • We are children just the same: Vedem, the secret magazine by the boys of TerezínJewish Publication Society1995-01-01

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