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We Are Children Just the Same - Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezín (Paperback)
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We Are Children Just the Same - Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezín (Paperback)
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Terezín survivor George (Jirí) Brady recalls: “In the tragic
struggle for survival, the Nazi-imposed Terezín
‘self-administration’ tried to help the imprisoned children.
They were placed in buildings where living conditions were better
than in the many barracks that were inside the fortress. . . . I
was one of these children. And by pure luck I found myself among
the boys who were led by Valtr Eisinger. In a small room
overcrowded with three-tiered bunks, he created a new, fascinating
world for us behind the ghetto walls. The boys developed talents
they never dreamed they had, and it was there too that the illegal
children’s magazine on which this book is based was founded.”
From 1942 to 1944, a group of thirteen- to fifteen-year-old Jewish
boys secretly produced a weekly magazine called Vedem (In the Lead)
at the model concentration camp, Theresienstadt (“Terezín” 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.” Although the material was saved by one of the handful of
boys who survived the Holocaust, it was suppressed for fifty years
in Czechoslovakia until 1995, when these works were published
simultaneously in English, Czech, and German. Vedem provides a
poignant glimpse into the world of boys torn from their comfortable
childhoods and separated from their families, ultimately to perish
in the Nazi death machine. This edition includes a new preface and
epilogue.
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