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Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
by
Ruth Thomson
Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín 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 Terezín, 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 tale...more
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, 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 tale...more
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
February 22nd 2011
by Candlewick Press
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This book tells the story of the town Terezin in what is now the Czech Republic, it was named Theresiendstadt by the Nazis when it was turned into a ghetto and transport camp for Jews during the Holocaust. The camp’s history is told by Thomson and accompanied by personal accounts and artwork from the Terezin victims themselves. Many of the Jews sent to Terezin were middle-class professionals, some of which were established artists who secretly made drawings of the suffering that took place at th...more
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The book chronicles the lives of the Jews sent to Terezin, Czechoslovkia during the Holocaust. Terezin was a transportation camp that was a stopover for many during the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Inside Terezin, artists were forced to create propaganda for the Nazi’s but secretly recorded the horrors they were suffering with their art. Using first hand accounts and the recovered artwork of the artists, this book relays the harsh realities that existed. T...more
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The book chronicles the lives of the Jews sent to Terezin, Czechoslovkia during the Holocaust. Terezin was a transportation camp that was a stopover for many during the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Inside Terezin, artists were forced to create propaganda for the Nazi’s but secretly recorded the horrors they were suffering with their art. Using first hand accounts and the recovered artwork of the artists, this book relays the harsh realities that existed. T...more
This book brings readers into the lives of inmates that were apart of the Terezin camp during the Holocaust. The story is told through the eyes of people who were there at that time and how they survived. This book allows these people to express their feelings and tell their own private stories.
This book is definiately accurate in conveying factual information because readers get the priviledge to read about actual stories from the Holocaust. Along with this are personal journal entries and artw...more
This book is definiately accurate in conveying factual information because readers get the priviledge to read about actual stories from the Holocaust. Along with this are personal journal entries and artw...more
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust is a book about what Jewish life was like in ghetto and transit camps. The ghetto was established in a small town called Terezin and renamed Theresienstadt by the Nazis. The book gives the basic facts of how the ghetto was established, how people managed to live there, what it was like specifically for the children, and how the Jews were systematically moved from there to death camps. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents...more
This has small snippets of information, entries from letters and diaries, and artwork by people who lived in Terezin during WWII. It's interesting, but very short and could have been made into a longer book. The format reminded me of a children's book, but the content would be too mature for very young readers.
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Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi G...more
Product Description
Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi G...more
Terezin appears to be a book full of facts that could be bore some. However, as I read the words and looked at the pictures throughout the book I was fascinated and found myself learning a wealth of knowledge about the Holocaust. This book provides its readers with a timeline and different events that occurred between 1941 and 1945. The testimonies and words from survivors of the Holocaust pulled on my emotions and heartstrings. One part of the book surprised me. Towards the end there was a part...more
I’ve read so many books about Theresienstadt, the “model ghetto” concentration camp the Nazis set up for Jews, a large preponderance of them artists, musicians, etc. skilled in the arts. This is a new book for older children. It’s a good introduction to Terezin/Theresienstadt and to the Holocaust too.
It’s very well structured, told mostly in chronological order. It’s told mostly by fairly short quotes from those imprisoned there, some who survived, many who did not, who either died there or were...more
It’s very well structured, told mostly in chronological order. It’s told mostly by fairly short quotes from those imprisoned there, some who survived, many who did not, who either died there or were...more
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Terezin is the story of a concentration camp, Terezin, during the Holocaust where imprisoned Jews tell their personal stories and use artwork to help articulate the horror. A compilation of real survivors’ statements and artwork that was found after the Holocaust, we see pictures that depict the truth behind the brick walls. While Terezin is formatted like a textbook, we see a variety of perspectives, which allows the reader to gain greater insight to how different people were treated different....more
Summary:
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany transformed the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia into a ghetto and transit site for death camps. Terezín was a camp plagued not only by disease and starvation, but also by deep deception. Staged as a "show" camp, Terezín was used to fool the world about the horrific living conditions endured by imprisoned Jews. Jewish artists from around the world were forced to use their artistic talents to create propaganda.
In her narrative, Thomson showcases th...more
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany transformed the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia into a ghetto and transit site for death camps. Terezín was a camp plagued not only by disease and starvation, but also by deep deception. Staged as a "show" camp, Terezín was used to fool the world about the horrific living conditions endured by imprisoned Jews. Jewish artists from around the world were forced to use their artistic talents to create propaganda.
In her narrative, Thomson showcases th...more
Ruth Thompson has collected a haunting assortment of images and writings from Terezin, a small fortress town in the Czech Republic that the Zazis turned into a Jewish ghetto during World War II. Thousands of Jewish people from across Europe were imprisoned here. Many of them left for their deaths at Auschwitz. The ones who remained struggle to survive the harsh physical conditions and debasing treatment by the Nazis.
Words quoted from the letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, and interviews of the...more
Words quoted from the letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, and interviews of the...more
Ruth Thomson dives into the depths of one of the concentration camps during the Second World War. The concentration camp that she refers to is in the town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia. In this particular camp, artists and talented patrons were residence. Nazi's used these people to entertain the population of Germany by making charts, posters, and official reports. The prisoners were somewhat entertained by themselves, through the secret performances given by the musicians and actors that were als...more
2012 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book winner, Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust, by Ruth Thomson, is a powerful non-fiction book on the Terezin Jewish Ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Geared toward children (male and females) ages 10 and up, this book provides stories, diary entries, artwork, and survivor accounts (memoir and recordings) of time spent in Terezin. Terezin was a camp designed by the Nazi’s to distract and deceive the world of the horrors and hor...more
Age: 8-12 years
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazis turned the town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto for thousands of displaced Czech Jewish people. Ruth Thomson provides a brief summary leading up to ghetto life, followed by the intensely dismal living conditions that demoralized and deteriorated the prisoner's health. With an ever growing population that cramped living conditions and expedited disease and living quarters that separated families, combined with sudden transports away from the c...more
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazis turned the town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto for thousands of displaced Czech Jewish people. Ruth Thomson provides a brief summary leading up to ghetto life, followed by the intensely dismal living conditions that demoralized and deteriorated the prisoner's health. With an ever growing population that cramped living conditions and expedited disease and living quarters that separated families, combined with sudden transports away from the c...more
Ruth Thomson presents the story of the concentration camp named Terezin during the time of the Holocaust. Throughout the book, imprisoned Jews tell their personal stories and use artwork to help articulate the horror and realities of the site. While formatted like a textbook, we see a variety of perspectives, which allows the reader to gain greater insight to how different people were treated during this time. With the use of individual quotes, it can be crituqued that this book is too personal...more
The horror of the holocaust, is brought to you in this chilling book, “Terezin; Voices from the Holocaust.” It includes all of your normal informational features, headings, subheadings, bold words, pictures captions etc. But along with these features it is the true stories, real drawings of the survivors, dates that give you a sense of time, real interviews, journals, letters, diaries and memoirs of the Jewish survivors that really bring this informational book to life.
Ruth Thomson uses quot...more
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust tells the story of the Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic. The story is told through first hand accounts and art work from the people who were imprisoned in the camp. Terezin was a camp the Nazis used to show off to organizations like the Red Cross. They would fix it up and prove that their camps were not bad places. Unfortunately, Terezin was just like all the other concentration camps. Most of the Jews imprisoned there were transported to other...more
Orbis Pictus
This book is a book about the Holocaust and the ghetto. It talks about what life was like in this ghetto and the transit camps and it focuses a lot on the children and their lives during this time period. The Jews were then moved from the ghetto to death camps and the Nazis made the Jews lie about what was really happening in these death camps by using their artistic talents to falsify what the gas chambers and life in general was like there.
I think this is a very sad book but one th...more
This book is a book about the Holocaust and the ghetto. It talks about what life was like in this ghetto and the transit camps and it focuses a lot on the children and their lives during this time period. The Jews were then moved from the ghetto to death camps and the Nazis made the Jews lie about what was really happening in these death camps by using their artistic talents to falsify what the gas chambers and life in general was like there.
I think this is a very sad book but one th...more
Not an easy read (what book about the Holocaust is?) but definitely good. Excellent information about the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Covers everything from the decision to deport Jews to ghettos like Theresienstadt, living conditions, the people who lived there, and how the Nazis came to use it as a sham--even allowing Red Cross workers to take a tour there to view a "model Jewish community" and the making of a propaganda film there. All of the text and artwork is from thin...more
This is a perfect book for use with the 7th grade Common Core unit "Courage in Life and Literature." This well-researched and carefully presented book illustrates the story of the Holocaust from the voices of those who experienced it. The book contains secret drawings, diary entries, excerpts from memoirs, etc., all giving a first-hand look at the atrocities experienced by Jews in WWII. Great to pair some of the excerpts with the Diary of Anne Frank.
Heartbreaking accounts from the inmates of Terezin. How culture raised their morale and helped them escape their miserable existence. Photos of amazing artwork by Jewish artists who sketched in secret the conditions in which they were forced to live. Contrasts starkly to propaganda drawings the same artists were ordered to make by SS officers to con the outside world into believing they were treated fairly by the Nazis.
Like many teenage girls, I had a "Holocaust" period, where I read anything I could get my hands on. There's something in the struggle for survival, the atrocities, that makes you ponder and think. At any rate, I had never heard the story of Terezin until this story. Reading all the first hand accounts and seeing the artwork was moving. I'm glad I know the story of this place, of some of those who had to live here.
This text gives a lot of factual information from survivors of the Holocaust. While I feel the text and information is invaluable, it is definitely a middle school or older text. This is a high interest read, but may not contain content and details that are appropriate for all third grade minds to digest yet. I would use it for older classrooms to discuss the happenings of the Holocaust.
The story of the Nazi's "model concentration camp" told through quotes from people imprisoned their and many visual artifacts (reproduced in color), including art work created by prisoners. An excellent textual and visual documentary, and an important addition to Holocaust literarture for young people.
This book inspired me to do what all great nonfiction should... I did more research. Terezin, a fortress city built in 1780 to protect Prague, became a ghetto city used by Hitler to hold Czech artists, musicians, and writers. This is a great, but heartrending read.
This is easily one of the most haunting books I have read about the Holocaust. The illustrations and artwork are so shocking and poignant. I recommend this to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of what life was like for people living in ghettos during World War II.
Great collection of primary source quotes, documents & artwork from this specific time & place. Connects perfectly with the collection of poems & artwork presented in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." It is shocking that these events occured & were accomplished by humanity. It is even more shocking that some hope to deny it.b
Audience: (Grade 6-8) Students who love history and the Holocaust would like this book.
Appeal: This book would be great to use for History and Literature lessons.
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Appeal: This book would be great to use for History and Literature lessons.
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Audience: 5th grade-up, history buffs, anyone interested in World War II
Appeal: true story, quick read, uses pictures/drawings from era of Holocaust, easily organized
(2012 Honor Book for NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)
Appeal: true story, quick read, uses pictures/drawings from era of Holocaust, easily organized
(2012 Honor Book for NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)
This book will bring students into the lives of people that were placed in the Terezin Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. This book has personal stories of how people felt during the time and how the survived. It is a very informational story. I would use this in the classroom during a lesson on the Holocaust or read it as informational text.
Gave a different perspective of the Holocaust--from Jewish artists, writers, and playwrites who were imprisoned in Terezin, Czechoslovakia. A facinating look at how artists used their talent to secretly chronicle the true plight of the Jews during World War II.
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Ruth Thomson is an author and editor of many children's books. She has an MA in museum and gallery education and lives in London.
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May 15, 2011 04:21pm