Terezin Holocaust survivor Lisl Bogart at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. Photo credit: Amanda Berrios Few survivors of the concentration camp at Terezin remain. Even ...

Inge Auerbacher was seven years old when she was deported from her home in Kippenheim, Germany to the Terezin Concentration Camp. She spent three years in captivity before being liberated from the ...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the atrocities and enormous loss of life in the Holocaust during World War II. Among the Nazi concentration camps was one north of Prague called Terezin ...

When Hannah Arendt wrote “The Origins of Totalitarianism” in the years just after the Holocaust, she struggled to explain what made the Nazi genocide so unprecedentedly evil. What separated this ...

(JTA) — Over the past several decades, the Terezín concentration camp has come to be synonymous with the music of the Holocaust because of the number of performers who were imprisoned there. Now, in ...

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Scott Simon talks with violist Mark Ludwig about his efforts to preserve - and play - the music written by some of the many musicians imprisoned and killed at the Terezin concentration camp. Music has ...

On a late winter’s day, when chilling fog draped the leafless trees and few birds sang, I retraced the steps of one Edgar Krasa, 93, a Bostonian, a concentration camp survivor, a humble man and cook ...

It was on November 24, 1941 when the first batch of Czechoslovak Jews was transferred from Prague to Terezin, a town about 50 kilometers North of Prague, which the Nazis declared to be a Jewish ghetto ...

Separated by three generations, one lived through war to create a magical world of fantasy, and one was blessed to know peace but writes about an unimaginably tragic chapter of history. Playwright and ...

Trapped in the Nazi concentration camp Terezín, Czech conductor Rafael Schächter turned to what he knew best to inspire his fellow prisoners and act in defiance of his captors: Music. Schächter formed ...