Written by a Czech Jewish boy, "A Boy in Terezin" covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezin from April 1944 until liberation in April 1945. The Germans claimed that Theresienstadt was "the town the Fuhrer gave the Jews," and they temporarily transformed it into a Potemkin village for an International Red Cross visit in June 1944, the only Nazi camp opened to outsiders. But the Germans lied. Theresienstadt was a holding pen for Jews to be shipped east to annihilation camps. While famous and infamous figures and historical...
Written by a Czech Jewish boy, "A Boy in Terezin" covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezin...