Books like Fireflies in the dark by Susan Goldman Rubin
Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp where she taught art to children until liberation. This book presents her own artwork, the drawings of her students, excerpts from Dicker’s diary, and oral histories from former camp survivors, illuminating how art provided hope and resilience in the darkest hours.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Susan Goldman Rubin
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