Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto (Modern Czech Classics)
By J. R. Pick.
Description
Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places—and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick’s novella Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tells the story of Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy who is deported from Prague to the infamous Terezín ghetto for Jews—the horrific, overcrowded concentration camp where one in four prisoners died of starvation or disease, and a way station on the way to Auschwitz. But it is not the atrocities Tony experiences that make his tale remarkable. It is his...
ISBN(s)
8024636999, 9788024636993
