Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsCompassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of placesand even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Picks novella Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tells the story of Tony, a thirteen year old boy who is deported from Prague to the infamous Terezn ghetto for Jewsthe horrific, overcrowded concentration camp where one in four prisoners died of starvation or disease, and a way