Book Talk
by: William Diaz
Settings
Terezin was a camp that they made to trick the red cross into thinking that the camps were a good place for the Jews to stay. So they planted flowers, opened cafes, and gave out more food, so inmates looked healthier.
Conflict
The Nazi army imprisoned millions of Jewish, Gypsies, and homosexual people in these camps. Then they took them and made them do forced labor, they killed them, and they accused them of crimes that they didn't commit.
Characters
John Silberman
A German schoolboy who said"After 1933 it was just accepted that if you were a Jewish child, you were liable to be beaten up, bullied, or whatever else they they wanted to do with you."
Edith Baneth
A Jew in Theresienstadt who said " We thought we would get apartments there and would live just a normal life, but in a ghetto."
Badrich Lederer
"Terezin was a powerless community beset by fears and oppressed by ruthless and madden tyrants"
Plot
Terezin was one of the concentration camps that they made into a "propaganda-camp" They took the camp and beautified it and made it seem like the camps are a good place to house people then they let the International Red Cross inspect it and see that the Jews were being treated nice when they were not.
Terezin Propaganda Film
Children of Terezin.mov