![]() ![]() ![]() It also reproduces pages from the original booklets that show how the teenage Kraus illustrated his memories with pencil drawings that both complement and extend his story, giving readers a sense of its character as an unusual and important historical document. Seel, Pierre, 1923-2005, Gay men - France - Mulhouse - Biography, Gays - Nazi persecution - France - Mulhouse, World War, 1939-1945 - Deportations from France, World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, French, National socialism, Concentration camps - Germany. The present edition makes this memoir, originally written in Czech and significant for having been written so close to the author's liberation, widely available to English readers for the first time. ![]() After his liberation and while convalescing, he began to draw and make notes again about his experiences in Theresienstadt, in Auschwitz, the first death march out of Mauthausen, and its satellite camps, in Melk and Gunskirchen. When he was shipped with other prisoners to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of his writings were confiscated and destroyed. Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of Nachód but continued writing while a prisoner at Theresienstadt (Terezín). ![]()
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