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| Vedem:
The Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin |
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Petr
Ginz,
the editor-in-chief of the magazine (perished, Auschwitz), wrote
a popular feature called 'Rambles through Terezin.' Petr visited
various institutions throughout the ghetto and interviewed people
there. His rambles included visits to the bakery, the maternity
hospital, the fire station, and a particularly chilling ramble
to the crematorium.
At the age of fourteen, Petr drew the picture shown here. He
called it Moon Landscape, because it is an image of earth
as seen from the moon.
In
2003, Yad Vashem--Israel's National Holocaust Memorial
and Museum--gave this picture by Petr to the first Israeli astronaut,
Ilan Ramon, to take with him into space.
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To read some of Petr's Rambles, see additional
resources.
To read a description of Petr by survivor Kurt Kiri Kotouc,
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Herbert
Maier (perished,
Auschwitz) reported with excitement on the Youth Library
in Barracks L216, full of 35,000 volumes, organized by the
teenagers. He wrote: "It has never happened before in
Terezin that, by combining something private, something public
has been created." This branch was part of the
Community Library established by the ghetto inmates,
with Nazi permission, and even some individual Nazi clientele.
By liberation, there were over 130,000 volumes in the Terezin
library, supervised by the philosopher Prof Emil Utitz.
George Brady was one of the few boys involved in Vedem
who survived the war. He was one of the three survivors who
helped bring Vedem to publication in 1995. He became famous
through the story of his younger sister, told in Hana's
Suitcase by Karen Levine.
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Hana and George Brady
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Questions:
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- On
February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia crashed, and
the astronauts in it died, including Ilan Ramon, the first
Israeli astronaut. That date that would have been Petr's
75th birthday.
Why did Yad Vashem specifically choose Petr's drawing-from
their vast collection of artifacts-to give to Ilan Ramon?
- Reflect
on Herbert Maier's statement about the Terezin Community
Library. What was the relevance of this library?
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