Brundibar

Brundibar PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844280285
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.

Brundibar

Brundibar PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844280285
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.

But the Giraffe & Brundibar

But the Giraffe & Brundibar PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 9781559365758
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A children's opera from the creators of Angels in America and Where the Wild Things Are.

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion PDF Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415976707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Cat with the Yellow Star

The Cat with the Yellow Star PDF Author: Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0823421546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ela Stein was eleven years old in February of 1942 when she was sent to the Terezin concentration camp with other Czech Jews. By the time she was liberated in 1945, she was fifteen. Somehow during those horrendous three-and-a-half years of sickness, terror, separation from loved ones, and loss, Ela managed to grow up. Although conditions were wretched, Ela forged lifelong friendships with other girls from Room 28 of her barracks. Adults working with the children tried their best to keep up the youngest prisoners' spirits. A children's opera called Brundibar was even performed, and Ela was chosen to play the pivotal role of the cat. Yet amidst all of this, the feared transports to death camps and death itself were a part of daily life. Full of sorrow, yet persistent in its belief that humans can triumph over evil; this unusual memoir tells the story of an unimaginable coming of age.

Clara's War

Clara's War PDF Author: Clara Kramer
Publisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 1551993686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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“You lose your loved ones, and still you want to live.” On 21 July 1942, the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew. Life for fifteen-year-old Clara Kramer would never be the same. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, three families found perilous refuge in a hand-dug cellar. Hers was one of them. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mrs. Beck had been the families’ maid. Mr. Beck was alcoholic and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life to keep his charges safe. But survival under his protection proved to be anything but predictable. Whether it was his nightly drinking sessions with officers of the SS in the room just above or his torrid affair with one of the hiding women, it seemed that Clara and the others often had as much to fear from Beck as they did from the war. Clara’s mother told her to keep a diary while they lived in the bunker in order to fill her time and “so the world would know what happened to us.” Over sixty years later, Clara Kramer has finally turned those diaries into a compelling and heartbreaking memoir — a story of love and memory and survival.

The Girls of Room 28

The Girls of Room 28 PDF Author: Hannelore Brenner
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805242708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all over Europe were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decided that it was the young people who had the best chance to survive. Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind, and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, in dormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of staying healthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young men and women who had been teachers and youth workers) created a disciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. The counselors also made available to the young people the talents of an amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, and playwrights–European Jews who were also on their way to Auschwitz. Under their instruction, the children produced art, poetry, and music, and they performed in theatrical productions, most notably Brundibar, the legendary “children’s opera” that celebrates the triumph of good over evil. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors—women in their late-seventies today, who reunite every year at a resort in the Czech Republic. Weaving her interviews with the women together with excerpts from diaries that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will that combined—in the girls and in their caretakers—to make survival possible.

Legacies, Lies and Lullabies

Legacies, Lies and Lullabies PDF Author: Esther Levy
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622873319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Legacies, Lies and Lullabies: The World of a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor is a smorgasbord of history, memoirs, interviews, poems, recipes and cultural tidbits. It explores the rise of Hitler, the perils of life in Terezin, the soap opera of Eastern European relatives, and the invisible baggage of the second generation. A riveting must-read for anyone who hungers for a slice of humanity.

The Art of Maurice Sendak

The Art of Maurice Sendak PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810944480
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Continues the analysis that began in The Art of Maurice Sendak to focus on the award-winning illustrator's work since 1980, tracing his contributions to the art world within and outside the literary arena with reproductions of hundreds of sketches and final pieces created for children's books and the performing arts. 20,000 first printing.

Caroline, or Change

Caroline, or Change PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366052
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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An extraordinary new achievement in the American musical theatre.

Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness

Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness PDF Author: Tony Kushner
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361002
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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In this first collection of writings by Tony Kushner, including his latest play Slavs!, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright grapples with the timeless issues of bigotry, war, faith, love, as well as tackling the contemporary topics as AIDS, gay rights and the moral horrors of the Gulf War.