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Books

These represent an escape from difficult circumstances. There are a few of these in Auschwitz and a librarian who takes care of them.

Block 31

This is a barracks known as the family camp. It was created to produce propaganda about the concentration camps.

Music Box

This is something that Viktor gives Renee. Renee would have preferred food. It represents how few items are valuable in Auschwitz.

Bread

This is food and is used as currency in Auschwitz. Dita uses it to borrow a jacket from a boy so she and her mother can visit her father before he dies.

Prague

This is where Dita is from and where she returns after the war.

Terezín

This is a ghetto where many Jews are sent before being moved to a concentration camp.

Bergen-Belsen

This is the third concentration camp where Dita and her mother are imprisoned. The conditions...

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