Creative Activities in the Terezín Ghetto: A Case of Boys from heim L417

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ojs.ukscip.com/index.php/ct/article/view/1317" target="_blank" >https://ojs.ukscip.com/index.php/ct/article/view/1317</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54963/ct.v1i1.1317" target="_blank" >10.54963/ct.v1i1.1317</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Creative Activities in the Terezín Ghetto: A Case of Boys from heim L417

Original language description

This study focuses on the exceptional cultural and mental activities of boys interned in the Terezín ghetto during World War II, specifically through their secret magazine Vedem. Created within the L417 home, the magazine served as a space for literary, artistic, and philosophical self-reflection. Through poems, fairy tales, essays, and drawings, the young authors expressed their longing for freedom, the loss of home, reflections on the meaning of human existence, as well as depictions of everyday life in the ghetto - often infused with irony and humor. The study demonstrates that these creative activities had fundamental therapeutic, existential, and community-cultural value: they helped the boys preserve their human dignity, reinforced their identities, and allowed them to escape into the world of imagination. At the same time, Vedem functioned as a form of spiritual resistance to Nazi oppression and dehumanization. The magazine thus becomes more than just a historical document - it stands as proof that even under the extreme conditions of genocide, children are capable of creative expression, critical thought, and resistance through language and culture. Moreover, the study highlights the universal significance of children´s creativity in extreme historical situations, where cultural production becomes a means of survival, solidarity, and humanity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Creative Therapeutic

ISSN

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e-ISSN

3050-0397

Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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