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This challenging and compelling new book reveals the previously undocumented life of the children at Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. During the war approximately 10,000 children were held here. Concentrating on a group of boys, aged between 12 and 14 at the time of imprisonment, Nesarim: Child Survivors of Terezin recounts their stroies both during and after the war. The 10 boys detailed here shared a room with 30 others and they called themselves the Nesarim or eagles. This is their poignant story, one of survival, strength and above all, brotherhood.
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Calling themselves the Nesarim (eagles), the Holocaust survivors profiled in this book spend 2-3 years imprisoned together in a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia named Terezín (called Theresienstadt by the Germans). Having interviewed the ten survivors who later emigrated from Czechoslovakia, including her husband, the author presents their experiences in the camp and later as they tried to reconstruct their lives. Also included are some interviews with some of their wives, a number of whom also were imprisoned at Terezín. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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