In the Constraints of Centralized Cultural Policy: The Terezín Narrative and Hardline Critique Reception of Reiner’s Musical Score: Musical Composition as a Means of Animation and Self-Therapy The Theresienstadt Collection and the Production of Butterflies Do Not Live Hereīutterflies Do Not Live Here : Film Synopsis and Reception Keywords Miro Bernat Jiří Weil Hana Volavková Drahoslav Holub Karel Reiner William Bukový Theresienstadt ghetto children’s drawings Czechoslovakia Holocaust documentary film compilation film animation reception history. This analysis is based on original research at the Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague, on contemporary press critic and oral history sources, including two interviews with the survivors who participated on making of the films, Helga Hošková-Weissová and Anna Hyndráková, conducted by the author in 2019.

At the same time, it explores the films’ cultural-political significance in the context of Czechoslovakia in the late 1950s and early 1960s and considers the factors that led to the contrasting histories of reception. This article seeks to address this glaring oversight by examining the history of the films’ production as well as the history of their reception by the public, press and official cultural establishment. From today’s perspective, however, they are equally forgotten, missing from both Theresienstadt film studies and studies of Holocaust films. The former received a good deal of international attention and praise, the latter was barely noticed. Reception of the films was also starkly different. However, within these similar coordinates, each chose a different approach to the material.

Apart from using the same material, the films share similarities in style, as both directors worked in the tradition stemming from interwar avant-garde practices of cinematic montage and experimented with elements of animation. Both of these films employed drawings and paintings made by Jewish children imprisoned in Theresienstadt between 19. Butterflies Do Not Live Here and On Shoes, Braid and Dummy Production and Reception History of Two Czechoslovak Documentaries on the Holocaust Author Jana Rogoff Abstract In 19, two documentaries on the Holocaust were released in Czechoslovakia: Motýli tady nežijí / Butterflies Do Not Live Here by Miro Bernat and O botičkách, copánku a dudlíku / On Shoes, Braid and Dummy by Drahoslav Holub.

Jurnal (1938–1945) by Helga Weissová