czechoslovakia

Details the efforts of people who risked their own lives to save thousands of Jews and others from Nazi persecution.

In October 1991, The American Boychoir traveled to Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) and performed the concert I Never Saw Another Butterfly composed by Charles Davidson. Ten years later, members of the 1991 Boychoir, as young men in their twenties reunited with survivors featured in the original documentary.

From back page: Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, and only about a hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. These few then went back to the scattered pieces of their lives, their homes and families. Raja lived through it all at Terezin, teaching children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little reason for hope. This play is her story. It is history as much as any play can be history, showing the best and the worst of which the human heart is capable.

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

Explores the nature of cruelty and kindness, of fear and courage, and of memory and the way it shapes our lives as seen by the author who was caught in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

The author recounts the shape her life took at the hands of the Nazis, describing her forced relocation to the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague at the age of nineteen, where she dreamed of becoming an actress; her internment at the Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen camps; and her rescue in 1945 by an anonymous British officer.