Children lived and grew up in the horrific reality of the Terezín fortress - in the shadow of death, which was often only a short time away.
But children, even adolescents, inhabit their own world, where the reality of adults penetrates only with difficulty and often with little understanding, and whose course defies the inexorable laws of physical time. J. R. From his own memories, Pick has managed not only to conjure up and make present an image of the eager, elemental joy of what little the precocious teenagers in the camp were afforded, but also, paradoxically, to capture the absurdly comic relationship of Jews to the dark reality of genocide.
The booklet is a world unique, perhaps the only humorous depiction of life in a concentration camp. Jáchym Topol, the author of the afterword to this new edition of the book, is a strong supporter of the black humour of the Society for the Protection of Animals.
As a childhood memory of dissident meetings in his parents' apartment, J. R. Picka. Zuzana Justman Picková also returns to the atmosphere of the old Protectorate times alongside her older brother, recalling and stating that after the end of the concentration camp martyrdom it took twenty years before Pick was able to return to the subject and to extract from it this small book of extraordinary importance.
