Today we had a rest day from the
Labe walk. We took a side trip beside the river Ohre, a major tributary of the
Labe, to visit Terezin. This town is better known by its German name
Theresienstadt.
It was here where many Jews from
across Europe were imprisoned during WW II before being shipped to
extermination camps where they were murdered. I found it an extremely moving
and depressing location. That one group of "civilized" people could
inflict such suffering on another group is almost incredible in the modern
Europe. However we have yet to visit Dresden.
Even today, to me at least, Terezin
is a movingly sad town. It seems like a town that has lost the will to live.
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