Tag #134056 - Interview #78013 (Kurt Kotouc)

The anti-Semitism that came after February prevented us from publishing our youthful literary attempts from Terezin. With the Prague Spring [20] of 1968, Zdenek Ornest and I were playing with the idea of putting together a book that would contain at least some fraction of the eight-hundred pages of the magazine. We were hesitant. With some detachment we had to choose the best prose and poems, of which all spoke to us in the intimate voices of our childhood friends. That is why we were glad to cooperate with Marie Rut Krizkova who is a literary historian.