Transport za věčnost

Jend's father has just been arrested by the Gestapo, and the twelve-year-old boy cannot guess what will come next: the expulsion of his Jewish friends from his studies at the Gymnasium, the yellow stars on their coats, the transport to Terezín... František Tichý's book is inspired by real events and the stories of boys who lived in Prague and Terezín, it does not shy away from adventure and fantasy, but at the same time it is so true that it gives you chills...

It is a book of the utmost importance in my eyes.  It adds something that is not in other books or films about the fate of the boys in Terezín. Chava Pressburger (formerly Eva Ginz)

World War II is about as distant to today's children as the first war was to our generation. There are few surviving survivors, and soon they too will be gone; there are few interesting sources of information from which teenage girls and boys can get an idea of life then. This book, a story that is almost always about life, may be it. And the "subliminal message" that good friendship endures even in hard times is as true today as it was then. Jiří Dvořák

How do we bring the wartime fate of the Jews to children or young adolescents without overwhelming them with the boundless darkness that the Shoah contains, and without painting reality pink, without confusing young souls with straightforwardly expressed horrors? It seems that František Tichý, who has long been involved in conveying the history of wartime as an educator, and who has managed to enlist his pupils in the search for these ambiguous fates, has succeeded. Eva Lorencová

Czech edition