Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust

by Ruth Thomson

Book Overview

Through inmates' own voices and artwork, Terez?n explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terez?n, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world about the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763649635
• ISBN13: 9780763649630
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher