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This panel is interesting from a librarian's perspective. The upper section of the panel documents a "zine" self-published by a group of Jewish youth in 1940-1941.

In the hot Summer of 1940, Jewish children and youth not only were not allowed in the "Aryan-only" swimming holes. They were also prohibited by law from congregating at all. Despite the prohibition, a kindly land-owner allowed them to swim in the Vltava river off his piece of land.

Out of this forced segregation a type-written "zine" was born under the name Gossip (Cz.: Klepy) from the Jewish Swimming Pool.

The Gossip magazine, Issue No. 16, 1941.

The Gossip magazine "Editorial Board" on the banks of their secret Vltava swimming hole.