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Day and Fog-Terezín, poets at the crossroads is a journey through survival out of art. Day and Fog is a choral book that goes across several stories of WWII survival in the Czech Republic after the Terezín ghetto, a place where art was legally promoted by Nazis but also carried illegally by the prisoners. Terezín was the chosen ghetto to be shown by the Nazis as a tactic to oppose the world opinion about the horrendous and dreadful conditions of the camps. And so to a certain extent art was promoted and even a huge library of more than 50.000 books was assembled. Both adults and children were involved in survival not only trying to get enough food and warmth but also literature, visual arts, music, theater, philosophy.The heart of the book is the voice of survivals that describe the way they lived before and after the war. The thread that goes across the whole text is a couple of fantasy characters that have the chance to meet real historical protagonists and interact with them beyond temporal restrictions. In parallel a group of writers, poets, visual artists and historians take the journey discussing the history of the ghetto, the way it is still necessary to face genocide and memory, the human need to express through art. 10
