Literary activity of young prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp (the possibility of using the literary activity of young people as a historical source) Cover Image
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Literarische Tätigkeit jugendlicher Häftlinge im Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt (Die Möglichkeit die literarische Tätigkeit der Jugendlichen als historische Quelle zu nutzen)
Literary activity of young prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp (the possibility of using the literary activity of young people as a historical source)

Author(s): Jarmila Škochová
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: young prisoners; ghetto; Nazi regime; Terezin concentration camp;

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies literary productions by young Terezin prisoners as historical sources. The writings are divided into several groups and the conditions under which the young people lived and wrote are described. It is, above all, magazines and albums that contain information about both Terezin itself and the life of the young people imprisoned in the concentration camp.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/1987
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-37
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: German