Archive for Terezín

Surviving on Music

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 1 December 2013 by delclem

How Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust witness, survived the horrific ordeal of Theresienstadt (Terezín) with music. >article (c) open culture 2013
The former concentration camp >photos

Material culture: Terezín

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 6 August 2011 by delclem

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Places like Theresienstadt (above) or Auschwitz show how connected the Habsburg heritage and the Nazi era are in Central Europe. In some cases, like in Western Ukraine (Galicia), the Austro-Hungarian past even seems to be the prehistory of genocide.

Photos (c) Ruthner, 2011