The Song of the Petbog Soldiers

Theresienstadt was a show camp intended to convince the world of the humane treatment jewish inmates were enjoying. Inmates created and performed operas, concerts, cabarets and stage shows in order to serve their propaganda aims. Music was an integral part of camp life from the very beginning. Prisoners were not sent to zuxenhausen to be killed, but thousands did die there through starvation, abuse and disease. A trove of materials has survived to bear witness to the extraordinary diversity of musical life in the camp.