Drawing the Holocaust: A Teenager's Memory of Terezin, Birkenau, and Mauthausen

"I spent a year in the Terezin ghetto, but as bad as it was, it cannot be compared to a single month in Auschwitz or Mauthausen. Rather than taking time to describe Terezin, I will only briefly record the most important events, because I am writing this during a period in my life when time matters and I would rather describe in greater detail my experiences in the concentration camps." Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of...