Terezín

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Every year, we compose a list of websites, books, films, and podcasts for our Summer Academy participants. Naturally, we know how busy you are, but we promise that any time spent with these publications will greatly enrich your visit and your teaching.​

Please keep checking for updates, as we add to the list continually.

Jewish and non Jewish Fiction

Podcasts

Four stories of survival in Terezin


They were born between 1920 and 1928. They were enrolled in school or had just started jobs. Until the Germans occupied and dismembered Czechoslovakia in March, 1939. Soon the deportation notices arrived and their descent into hell began.

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Vedem magazine cover

Vedem: the secret boys’ magazine of Terezin

 

They were 13 and 14-year-old boys imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto and only a handful would survive the Holocaust.Every Friday night, they would take turns reading from their own secret magazine, Vedem (Czech for In The Lead) which was filled with poetry, essays, and humor

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Summer Academy 2026 Sponsors

South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Columbia
Jack Buncher Foundation
Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation
Cleveland