Articles tagged 'ghetto'
| Title | Headline | Summary | Media | Date | hf:tags | |
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 | Fortress | Terezin: The former WW2 ghetto falling into ruin | 150,000 Jews from across Europe were interned in the Terezín – or Theresienstadt – ghetto during WW2. It was a transit camp – where Jews were gathered before being sent eastwards to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Conditions at Terezín were horrific, and some 35,000 died there. But eighty years on, the buildings themselves are falling into ruin. | BBC News | 2021-04-06 | czech czechoslovakia ghetto holocaust jews nazis world-war-two |