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Gr 3-6 Rubin first met Weissberger, a Holocaust survivor, at a contemporary production of Brundibá r, a children -s opera most famous for having been performed by Jewish children imprisoned at Terezin. Rubin was researching Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin (Holiday House, 2000) and Weissberger was there to see the opera in which she herself had acted during her internment. The -Cat - in the title...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In Fireflies in the Dark (rev. 9/00), Rubin described artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis's dedication to teaching children at Terezin to draw and paint. Now, relying on well-documented sources (notably, interviews with Terezin survivor Ela Weissberger), the author extends that story by focusing on the children's concentration camp production of Hans Krása's opera, Brundibár. Man...Log In or Sign Up to Read More