Overview
- Summary
- Czech artist Karel Valter's memoirs of his time as a prisoner in concentration camps at Tábor, Malá pevnost Terezín, and Buchenwald, accompanied by facsimiles of drawings that he created during his internment and texts of 12 letters sent by him from Buchenwald prison to his wife
- Format
- Book
- Published
- [Tábor] : Vydala Rodina Karla Valtera, 2015
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
Tábor (Jihočeský kraj) - Edition
- Vydání první
- Notes
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"Vydáno k 70. výročí osvobození Buchenwaldu 11. dubna 1945 a konce II. světové války 8. května 1945"--Colophon.
Physical Details
- Language
- Czech
- ISBN
- 9788090554108
8090554105 - Physical Description
- 199 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Painters--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Graphic artists--Czechoslovakia--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Personal narratives. Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Prisoners--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Prisons--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Prisons--Czech Republic--Tábor (Jihočeský kraj) Concentration camps in art. Drawing, Czech--20th century. World War (1939-1945) Concentration camp inmates. Concentration camps. Drawing, Czech. Graphic artists. Painters. Prisoners. Prisons. Czech Republic--Tábor (Jihočeský kraj) Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Czechoslovakia. Biography. Personal narratives. Records and correspondence. Valter, Karel Valter, Karel--Correspondence Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
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- 2019-07-22 09:01:00
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