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In 1938, Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása penned the children’s opera Brundibar—“bumblebee” in colloquial Czech—for a government competition. But it wasn’t exactly a good time for art. Though early rehearsals took place at a Jewish orphanage in Prague, it wasn’t until Krása and all the orphans were deported to Theresienstadt in 1943 that the opera came […]

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When you think of secret diaries from World War II, your first thought is probably Anne Frank. But there’s a much stranger and darker text that most people don’t know about—the diary of Willy Mahler, a Czech journalist who died in Theresienstadt. Mahler had a relatively privileged life in the camp—at one point he even had his own […]

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