A literary event that tells story of five hundred children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944.

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.

This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Ota B. Kraus. The smaller ones cried because they were hungry and cold and impatient and the older boys , Adam and Lazik and Neugeboren , pushed and pulled and tried to leave the row , but the sentries beat them back with a rubber hose ...

... Kraus' testimony regarding Hirsch's death appears in a literary form in his novel “The Painted Wall.” Otto (Ota) B. Kraus, “The Painted Wall” (Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan Publisher, 1994), 30. It was confirmed to me in a personal interview ...

Study of how historical memory and understanding are created in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, fiction, poetry, drama video testimony and memorials.

... The Painted Wall, written by someone called Ota Kraus. There was a website where the book could be purchased and sent to you, cash- on- delivery. It wasn't a very professional website: You couldn't pay with a credit card, but there ...

We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight.

As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a ...

... Kraus's Life and his Novel Můj bratr dým ( The Painted Wall ) Hana Hříbková , Praha There is not just one Holocaust ; there are six million individual Holocausts . Ota B. Kraus Ota B. Kraus , a distinguished Czech and Israeli writer ...