Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2003) 116-125
Keywords:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
;
Jews
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Periodicals
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Relates how life in the ghetto of Theresienstadt is reflected in nine magazines edited by children and teenagers between 1943-45. Mostly handwritten, in secret, on scraps of paper in the children's houses, the magazines appeared in very few copies, or even one copy, per issue. Their contents, mostly limited to the horizon of the camp, express nostalgia for home and parents only indirectly. Other subjects include the transports to the East, the constant hunger, and the fate of the elderly. Mentions in particular "Kamarad", "Rim-Rim-Rim", "Vedem", and the periodical for girls, "Bonaco". Concludes that the magazines served as an escape for the children who lived under extreme duress. Of the 5,000 children under the age of 15 interned in the ghetto, only 245 survived. It is not known how many of those who contributed to the magazines survived.
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