Theresienstadt concentration camp
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Theresienstadt, also known as Terezín, was a town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), it was used from 1941 to 1945 by the Nazis as a walled ghetto and concentration camp and was also used as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. In 1943, the…
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There are millions of Holocaust stories I could write, but none will be as powerful as the testimonies of those who survived the darkest era. Following are some of those testimonies. Written by Zdeněk and Jiří Steiner, born 20. 5. 1929 in Prague, residents of Prague, former prisoners in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt and…
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They did not like my smile; at least, I don’t think they did. Why else do they hate me so much? They did not like my smile, but I couldn’t help it, I’m a child, and I am supposed to be happy and cheerful. They didn’t like my kind, but I didn’t understand I was…
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