Monday, July 26, 2010

Terezin

From "Radio Free Europe:"  'A recent Prague Spring concert honored musicians and artists in the Terezin concentration camp who died in the Holocaust. Terezin Music Foundation founder Mark Ludwig pays special homage to composer Gideon Klein, who died aged 26...'  It is captivating to try to find out or in some way have an image of what went on in the work camps of WWII Central Europe.  Terezin itself was apparently a type of dressed - up or hotel version of said camps and was visited and approved of by officials from Geneva several times during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.  Any material you find on it is worth reading as the Terezin camp was run in fashion always to be ready with a new coat of paint here and there and even new bunks for the Hebrew and other inmates upon the impending visitation of Geneva and other officials to confirm that there were no exterminations there.  It was a small and well - run prison camp where a higher percentage of the Holocaust inmates survived.

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