Surviving sketch of a set design for Hans Krasa’s Brundibar opera (dated ’43 in lower right corner). The play was performed more than 50 times in Theresienstadt, though almost all of its performers, most of them children, were murdered. In early summer, 1944, prior to a visit by the Red Cross, Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels ordered that a propaganda film be made of Theresienstadt. The film, titled Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (Hitler Gives the Jews a City), included a performance of Brundibar.