Gift of Herbert von Peci

Id no. 405.98.1-3, Other, Serbo-Croatian?, French, Hebrew, Dutch, Czech, German

Terezin, Theresienstadt, Bohemia

Subject(s):  Defiance-religious and cultural, Baeck, Leo, Friendship, Visual arts

Martha Klein von Peci assembled this book of remembrances in the Terezin Ghetto. It contains drawings, poems,and inscriptions by inmates living in L126, where she worked. This house was inhabited by "prominent" Jews: generals and colonels, industrialists, and Rabbi Leo Baeck. Mrs. Von Peci later annotated the book with information about these people, in some cases pasting in clippings from postwar newspapers.