Theatrical performance
A Spook Wanted

In 1943, Hanuš Hachenburg, a fourteen-year-old prisoner in the Terezín ghetto, wrote a highly original puppet play titled “Searching for the Monster.” This work, with an open-ended conclusion, filled with absurd humor and intriguing reflections on totalitarian society, was never performed during the war. Hanuš was deported to the family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau shortly after completing the play, where he was murdered in a gas chamber after several months of imprisonment.

In 2011, students from The Nature School created their own puppets and rehearsed Hanuš Hachenburg’s play “Searching for the Monster.” By the end of 2012, they had performed the play over 10 times in various locations throughout the Czech Republic. Most of these performances were accompanied by a musical-literary program about the boys’ Home One and the magazine Vedem.

Recording of a theater performance with English subtitles