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a one-act chamber opera that was composed in (originally on the back of a deportation list due to a lack of paper) and rehearsed in
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Terezin was a concentration camp rather than the model Jewish settlement the Nazis portrayed to outsiders. His works accurately reflect that its inhabitants were confined in inhuman conditions and treated severely.
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