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Theater

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Datec. 1946 - 1964

Dimensionsoverall: 12 in x 16 in

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Credit Linenone

Object number119.97

Object Description[Theater] The etching was done, postwar, by Leo Haas based on his experiences and earlier work done while he was interned at Terezin. People are standing on a covered wagon. Many more are crowded on the ground all looking into a white covered tent, pitched beside a massive brick building. They are oblivious to the people in the right-hand foreground loaded down with heavy packs. Probably done in East Germany.

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Documenting Nazi Ghettos

Keywords

Culture
Defiance-religious and cultural
Ghettos
Theater

Notes The following thoughts have been translated (by Frank Furth) from Haas' own words in Terezin/Theresienstadt, published by Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin, 1971. "The SS knew why they ordered small plays and concerts on their improvised stages. They were to strengthen the work morale. Between atrocities, the ghetto inmates clung to the most humble expressions of spiritual life. And so hearses often served as a stage or auditorium. If a transport order came, the curtain had to fall in the middle of the play."

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