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Book Review | Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko

Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko (Candlewick Press, 2011, 102 pp) There’s a special place in my heart for this book. Perhaps it’s because I had just been in the Czech Republic and had personally visited … Continue reading

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Five-in-One Notebook Special: Children’s Books about Terezín from Candlewick – Editors, Authors, Publicist

Candlewick recently published two books  about Terezín, also known as Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Bohemia. While not an extermination camp, 50,000 Jews were cramped into a town built to house 2,000. Disease and malnutrition contributed to the deaths of … Continue reading

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