Resources

The resources here provide general background reading on topics related to Defiant Requiem. Specific pre-teaching lesson plans can be found under the “Getting Started” section of each module.

Note: Terezín is also sometimes called by the German name Theresienstadt. You will see both names in the articles below but they refer to the same place.

General Information about the Holocaust and World War II

• Introduction to the Holocaust (USHMM)
• Timeline of the Holocaust (USHMM)
• Path to Nazi Genocide (film)

The German occupation of the Czech Lands and Nazi oppression of Jews

• German invasion of Czechoslovakia(USHMM)
• Anti-Jewish Measures in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (formerly Czechoslovakia) (USHMM)

Theresienstadt/Terezín

• Ghetto Without Walls (Holocaust.cz)
• Establishment of Theresienstadt (USHMM)
• Terezín Reader (Collection of Interviews with Terezín survivors from Centropa)

Creative Resistance in Terezín

• Spiritual and Cultural Resistance in Terezin (USHMM)
• Theresienstadt: Cultural Life (USHMM)
• Cultural and Spiritual Resistance: Excerpts of Voices from the Ghetto (Echoes and Reflections, Anti-Defamation League, 2016)

About Giuseppe Verdi and the Requiem

• Verdi’s Requiem: An Opera In Disguise by Conductor Marin Alsop (NPR)

The Red Cross Visit to Terezín

• Theresienstadt: Red Cross Visit, Holocaust Encyclopedia, USHMM
• Embellishment and the Visit of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Terezín, 23 June 1944 (Holocaust.cz)