Drawing Life

Author(s): Jocelyn Pook
<em>Drawing Life</em>, a Jewish Music Institute (JMI) production, is inspired by a collection of poems and drawings made by children imprisoned in Terezín. Based on original poems and drawings of the camp inmates, the performance is a dramatized song cycle featuring archive film and survivor testimony.
Format:Song cycle

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Nationality of Author:English
Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps
Tags: children, Terezin, Theresienstadt, art, poems

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