Every Friday for two years between 1942 and 1944, a group of teenage boy prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp shared their poems, stories and artwork in a secret magazine they called Vedem. Most of those boys perished in the Holocaust.
1 Part I: The Transports: Hear My Story Now (A Man, Chorus, a Youth, a Woman)
2 Part I: The Transports: Memories of Prague (Mezzo-Soprano)
3 Part II: Home Number One: Home Number One (Chorus)
4 Part II: Home Number One: Five (Tenor)
5 Part III: Vedem: Vedem (Chorus, a Man, a Woman, Boys)
6 Part III: Vedem: Just a Little Warmth (Mezzo-Soprano)
7 Part III: Vedem: In Terezin the Mind Was Free (Chorus, Boys)
8 Part III: Vedem: Thoughts (Tenor, Chorus)
9 Part III: Vedem: Live Leaves About to Fall (Chorus, a Man)
10 Part III: Vedem: Love in the Floodgates (Tenor)
11 Part III: Vedem: We Were Alive, Approximately (Chorus)
12 Part IV: A Model Ghetto (Youths, a Woman, a Man, Chorus)
13 Part V: They Are Gone: They Are Gone (A Rabbi, Chorus)
14 Part V: They Are Gone: Farewell to Summer (Mezzo-Soprano)
15 Part V: They Are Gone: We Were No Different Than You (A Rabbi, Chorus, a Woman)
16 No. 1. Don't Cry, Fragment 1
17 No. 2. You, Father
18 No. 3. Don't Cry, Fragment 2
19 No. 4. Last Night I Dreamt
20 No. 5. Don't Cry, Fragment 3
21 No. 6. I Saw My Father Drowning
22 No. 7. Don't Cry
Every Friday for two years between 1942 and 1944, a group of teenage boy prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp shared their poems, stories and artwork in a secret magazine they called Vedem. Most of those boys perished in the Holocaust.