Abstract
This collective monograph focusing on books and magazine for children and youth and published during World War II (1939-1945), initiated by the Institute for Communications and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, presents texts written by leading experts on literature and journalism for children and the youth at universities in the Czech Republic, and also includes one entry from Slovakia. The texts focus on stories of children and adolescents during World War II and the Holocaust published in books and magazines.
More than seventy years have passed since the end of the war, many new books have been published and the view of childhood and youth during wartime underwent a change after 1990. The texts analyze war propaganda in the literary, publishing and magazine production and interpret classical as well as contemporary works of Czech and world literature in translation (František Křelina, Zdeňka Bezděková, Jan Procházka, John Boyne, Věra Gissingová, Ori Orlev and others) as well as original Dutch and German literature, and literature in the form of young people's diaries and memoirs.