For 50 years Terezin: Children of the Holocaust has been performed live, as a stage play, for schools and audiences locally and around the world. The first-ever filmed production of the play premiered virtually in February 2021 at a time when its message has never been so necessary or relevant.

Terezin follows a day and night in the lives of six children held at Camp Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic. The camp, also known as Terezin, imprisoned thousands of European Jews, including over 15,000 children, less than 150 of whom survived. While the play takes place during the Holocaust, it teaches audiences about the consequences of hate and discrimination in our everyday lives, the need for greater social responsibility, the power of every individual voice in standing up to hate, and the inherent childhood capacity for hope.

Smulowitz was inspired to write Terezin back in 1970 after reading a real letter from 12-year old Chaim Landau, who was interned at the Terezin concentration camp, in which he wrote, ‘If you should find this letter, please tell someone. We want to go home. We want our lives back. Please remember us.’ The play has continued uninterrupted for the last 50 years, in Chaim’s memory and all those lost in the Holocaust.

Winner of the 1984 Children’s Television Award, Terezin has toured schools, colleges, churches, synagogues, and theaters as a stage play throughout the United States and internationally, and has been translated into several languages. The play has been performed off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, in Cuba, in Panama, in Germany, including in Berlin and Frankfurt, as well as at the Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic and at Auschwitz in Poland.

Terezin: Children of the Holocaust is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to fighting racism, antisemitism, discrimination, intolerance and bullying through education and the arts.

For more information about Terezin: Children of the Holocaust, or to book the film or play, please visit the website at https://www.terezin.org or email TerezinManager@gmail.com for more information