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Claudine Schwartz-Rudel was seven years old when she fled from Paris to Southern France with her parents. Before they left Paris, Claudine's parents gave her a doll named Colette opening Tens of thousands of Jews sought shelter in lofts, cellars, bunkers, sewers, and similar places. Many equipped themselves with forged papers, while children were often concealed with Christian families. The survival ratio was low: most fugitives were discovered and murdered. The number of Jews who survived by going underground is estimated in the thousands.
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Street in Theresienstadt Interior of Living Quarters in the Theresienstadt Ghetto  Petr Ginz as a boy in Prague before the war Petr Ginz and his sister in Prague before the war

Street in Theresienstadt
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper

Interior of Living Quarters in the Theresienstadt Ghetto 
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper

Petr Ginz as a boy in Prague before the war

Petr Ginz and his sister in Prague before the war

Theresienstadt

 

Petr Ginz, born in Prague in 1928, spent his adolescence in the children’s home in the Theresienstadt ghetto. He was remarkably talented at writing and drawing and edited the youth newspaper Vedem ‘We are the Leaders’. He died in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944.

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