Table of Contents

Foreword How This Book Came to Be Written Terezin Long Live the Republic of Shkid One of Us Life and Death The Boys from Home One, House L 417 Epilogue Editor's Note Acknowledgments

About the Author

Marie Rut Krizkova is a member of the Society of Christians and Jews, founded in Czechoslovakia in March 1991. Kurt Jiri Kotouc, a Terezin survivor, founded the Terezin Initiative, an organization to memorialize the events of the ghetto. He died in 2008. Zdenek Ornest (1929-90), one of the handful of Terezin survivors from cellblock 1, wrote prolifically in Vedem, especially poetry. Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) was a playwright, essayist, poet, dissident, and politician who served as the president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic from 1989 until 2003.