To My Tommy. An Album of Watercolor Drawings by a Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Prisoner
While in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, artist Bedřich Fritta dedicated a special book to his son Tommy for his birthday, illustrated with small watercolor drawings. In them is—beauty, grace, and even humor, as if a quiet rebellion against the surrounding...
horror.
In this last gift from father to son, there is so much tenderness, so much poetry, that it seems incredible that it could have been born in the camp, from a person surrounded, like his entire family, by horror and death.
Connecting the past and the present, writer Helios Azoulay reveals this poignant story. The book becomes a testament to how art and parental love overcome darkness and touches the depths of the soul.
In this last gift from father to son, there is so much tenderness, so much poetry, that it seems incredible that it could have been born in the camp, from a person surrounded, like his entire family, by horror and death.
Connecting the past and the present, writer Helios Azoulay reveals this poignant story. The book becomes a testament to how art and parental love overcome darkness and touches the depths of the soul.
Author: Гелиос Азулей, Бедржих Фритта
Printhouse: AST
Series: Living History: War, People, and Destinies
Age restrictions: 16+
Year of publication: 2026
ISBN: 9785171609382
Number of pages: 160
Size: 207х132х14 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 258 g
ID: 1739899
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