Word: terezin
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Alfred Kantor, now 48, works as an artist in a New York advertising agency. In 1939, because he was a Jew in Nazi-occupied Prague, he had to leave art school. In 1941, at age 18, he was sent to Terezin, a camp the Nazis used as a staging point for deadlier installations like Auschwitz. Kantor went there too, in 1943, but was saved from death because he was still strong enough to be drafted for work at a camp that provided laborers for a synthetic-fuel factory. In a brief introductory narrative, Kantor explains all this, and outlines what...
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