We are children just the same
Subtitle: Vedem, the secret magazine by the boys of Terezín
By: selected and edited by Marie Ruth Křížková, Kurt Jiří Koutouč, and Zdeněk Ornest ; translated from the Czech by R. Elizabeth Novak ; edited by Paul R. Wilson ; with a foreword by Václav Havel.
Contributors: Křížková, Marie Rút.; Kotouč, Kurt Jiří.; Ornest, Zdeněk.; Novak, R. Elizabeth.; Wilson, Paul R. 1941-
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- Literary collections.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Personal narratives.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.; Children's writings, Czech -- Translations into English.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.; Children's art -- Czechoslovakia.; Czechoslovakia -- Ethnic relations.
Genres: Personal narratives.; Literary collections.; Translations into English.
Other titles: Vedem.
Description: From 1942 to 1944, a group of 13- to 15-year-old Jewish boys secretly produced a weekly magazine called Vedem (In the Lead) at the model concentration camp, Theresienstadt ("Terezin" in Czech). The writers, artists, and editors put together the issues and copied them by hand behind the blackout shades of their cellblock, which they affectionately called the "Republic of Shkid.".

The material was saved by one of the handful of boys who survived the Holocaust, but it was suppressed for fifty years in Czechoslovakia. Now, for the first time, these works are being published simultaneously in English, Czech, and German. Vedem is a poignant glimpse at the world of boys torn from their comfortable childhoods, separated from their families, ultimately to perish in the Nazi death machine.