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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Terezin

Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)
May 6, 2024, 3:48 am
Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project
Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev holds his mother's yellow star at the former Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp, pictured on January 24, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Association)
January 27, 2023, 6:45 am
At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’
Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation
By Yaakov Schwartz
Musician Lenka Lichtenberg. (Bo Huang)
September 23, 2022, 11:08 am
Podcast: Secret Holocaust poems set to haunting music by survivor’s granddaughter
Czech-born musician Lenka Lichtenberg speaks about her new album, ‘Thieves of Dreams,’ based on poetry written in Theresienstadt and hidden in Prague. NEW: Full transcript included
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Scene from 'The Last Cyclist' production at La MaMa in New York, August 2017. (Alexander Jorgensen)
August 16, 2022, 4:03 pm
A lost comedy cabaret from the Terezin ghetto is reconstructed and finally staged
Originally banned by the camp’s Jewish leadership after dress rehearsal due to its boldness, Nazi victim Karel Švenk’s ‘The Last Cyclist’ is now getting its turn in the limelight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson, playwright Nicholas Tolkien. (courtesy)
From the WebJune 9, 2017, 4:11 pm
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Jewish great-grandson has a play on Theresienstadt
The Jewish Week: Playwright and director Nicholas Tolkien makes his New York Off-Broadway debut this month with ‘Terezin’
By Sandee Brawarsky
Jeremy Corbyn at the former Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, Dec. 3, 2016. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 5:57 am
UK Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn visits former Nazi camp at Terezin
Visit follows criticism that the British opposition leader didn’t do enough to rout out anti-Semitism in his party
By JTA
Israeli musicians perform at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem in a somber tribute to the works of musicians who created a vibrant cultural life in the Terezin concentration camp before being sent to their deaths. Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 23, 2016, 12:40 am
Live music plays at Yad Vashem for first time, in tribute to Terezin musicians
Trio stands upon replicas of train tracks, against a backdrop of Nazi flags and images of emaciated prisoners, showcasing pieces composed by camp prisoners
By Aron Heller
File: Czech President Milos Zeman, right, and his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin put stones on the memorial during a remembrance ceremony for the victims at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, October 22, 2015. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
May 17, 2016, 4:41 am
Czech Jews call Terezin memorial addresses nationalist, xenophobic
Community groups says speeches at Sunday commemoration in former concentration camp demonized foreigners, refugees
By JTA
Illustrative photo: The Holocaust memorial at Terezin, Czech Republic on January 27, 2015 (Times of Israel/Marissa Newman)
September 9, 2015, 12:03 am
Czech far-rightist calls to put refugees in former concentration camp
Leader of National Democracy Party says migrants should be housed in Terezin before ‘being taken home by trains’
By JTA
A performance of 'Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin' at Boston's Symphony Hall on April 27, 2015. Originally led by conductor Raphael Schachter, 150 Terezin inmates learned Verdi's Requiem mass by rote, and performed it sixteen times. (photo credit: Michael J. Lutch)
June 1, 2015, 9:56 am
Music used as resistance to the Nazis captures new audiences
A sold-out US tour of ‘Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin’ indicates a growing interest in recovering — and reinterpreting — the productions staged by Holocaust victims as prisoners
By Matt Lebovic
May 27, 2015, 7:09 pm
500,000 Holocaust survivors live in poverty, says US diplomat
Kerry adviser slams ‘unacceptable’ global situation, claims not enough has been done to alleviate financial strain
By AFP
Panoramic view of Prague (Photo credit: DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0)
March 12, 2015, 3:23 am
Prague unveils Holocaust memorial
‘The Gate of No Return’ sculpture commemorates 71st anniversary of murder of 4,000 Czech Jews in Auschwitz
By JTA
Twitter users like @diamatron, seen taking a selfie at a concentration camp in Poland, have provoked widespread criticism. (screen capture: Twitter)
February 18, 2015, 6:06 am
Beware the Holocaust-themed selfie
Taking photos at concentration camps and funerals walks thin line between self-documentation and self-centeredness
By Gabe Friedman
Illustrative photo: The Holocaust memorial at Terezin, Czech Republic on January 27, 2015 (Times of Israel/Marissa Newman)
January 27, 2015, 10:49 pm
At Terezin, passing the torch on commemoration
With most eyes on Auschwitz, a more modest ceremony at the former death camp looks to the day the survivors are gone as anti-Semitism resurges
By Marissa Newman
Russian President Vladimir Putin at his annual holiday news conference in Moscow, Russia, on December 18, 2014 (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
December 20, 2014, 10:17 pm
Czech Jewish group opposes Putin invite to Holocaust event
Federation calls Russian president’s attendance at an Auschwitz liberation memorial ‘inappropriate’
By AFP
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