Tyranny and resistance in "Death Strikes," the graphic novel adaptation of a concentration camp opera

It’s 1943, writer Peter Kien and composer Viktor Ullmann were rehearsing their opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis. They had created this work while imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Terezín was somewhat unique among concentration camps. The Nazis gave its inmates more freedom of movement and allowed them to engage in cultural activities. — Read the rest

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