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of the city. From there they were sent to exhibition of these children’s works, as they
Nazi death camps, principally Auschwitz. recalled happier times and depicted horri-
On the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue are fying episodes from their imprisonment.
inscribed the names of more than 77,000 Alongside each example of art and writing
Bohemian and Moravian Jews who died in is the name, birth date, and death date of
the Holocaust. each author, showing young, vibrant lives
The adults in Terezin tried to make life cruelly snuffed out.
as bearable for the children as possible, The visit to the Jewish Quarter was not
encouraging them to write, draw, and paint on the Road Scholar tour, but the company
about their lives and memories. The Pinkas and our guide highly recommended going
Synagogue museum displays a haunting there on our free time.
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