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June 4, 2023. SUNDAY

I have this book. Publisher: Schocken; First Edition (May 5, 1978)

THE ARTISTS OF TEREZIN
Fine / Near Fine, cream cloth over boards w illustrated cover stamped barbed wire and brown font on spine, 191 pps, 106 pps of illustrations, both color and black and white and reproduced poetry and writings. Unmarked, clean and tight, without writing or marks. Cover likewise. Dust jacket is near fine, not price clipped, showing a bit of shelf wear and age toning, now under protective mylar wrap. "Describes Terezin, or Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where a distinctive and remarkable culture flourished in spite and perhaps to spite it all. Artists such as Otto Ungar, Bedrich Fritta, Leo Haas, Karel Fleischmann, doctors and rabbis, children as well as adults, turned to art, poetry and philosophy not merely to record their plight but to reassert their humanity and to fight back with their only weapon - the undying, creative human spirit."

Gerald Green. The Artists of Terezin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An Original Copy is owned by the museum.