Shoah-Themed Literature and Art as a Starting Point for Building Children´s Identity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15410%2F25%3A73631585" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15410/25:73631585 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/10583" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/journal/10583</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-025-09636-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10583-025-09636-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Shoah-Themed Literature and Art as a Starting Point for Building Children´s Identity
Original language description
This paper examines how authentic works created by boys imprisoned in the Terezín ghetto can function as didactic resources for introducing primary school pupils to the Shoah. Using narrative content analysis and visual interpretation, it focuses on three contributions to the secret magazine Vedem: Jiří Bruml’s short story Fate, Petr Ginz’s poem The Fool, and Ginz’s drawing Moon Landscape. Fate deploys humour and satire to expose the collapse of social hierarchies and to reflect everyday struggles for survival; The Fool traces a shift in values as youthful ideals give way to the pragmatics of endurance, articulated through irony and absurd imagery; Moon Landscape, though outwardly science-fictional, fuses imaginative escape with coded testimony to fear and insecurity. Taken together, these testimonies show how children’s cultural production mediated trauma, resilience, and identity formation. When ethically and age-appropriately scaffolded - through guided discussion, creative writing, art-based tasks, and exploration of the digitized Vedem archive - such materials help pupils form personal connections to historical peers while cultivating empathy, critical reflection, and ethical awareness. The study thus argues that children’s literature and art from Terezín serve not only as historical documentation but also as potent tools for nurturing identity, resilience, and civic responsibility in contemporary classrooms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION
ISSN
0045-6713
e-ISSN
1573-1693
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
05 October 2025
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
"online"
UT code for WoS article
001586540000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105017903351