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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

This is such a moving example of people’s attempt to preserve their humanity in the face of unspeakable evil. At the Pinkhas Synagogue in Prague’s Jewish Quarter, there is an exhibition of drawings done by children who had been imprisoned at Terezín. There, too, you can see how desperately people tried to preserve a vestige of normal life in the midst of such suffering.

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Jeff Keener's avatar

A bittersweet legacy of an utterly ghastly time.

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