Word: theresienstadt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish concentration camp of Theresienstadt there were 45,000 men, women and children. When the camp was liberated 2½ years later, only a few hundred were left alive, and 72 -year-old Leo Baeck was one of them. When the Russians rounded up some petty officials and turned them over to the camp's survivors for vengeance, Rabbi Baeck persuaded his fellow sufferers to leave them unharmed...
...remembers the testimony of a certain wise man who had come to live among us after the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the venerable and heroic scholar Leo S. Baeck, onetime Chief Rabbi of Berlin. A score or so of American intellectuals-novelists, historians, poets, political writers-had gathered to listen to him; and after some talk of Goethe and Nietzsche and Mann, one voiced the question in all minds: "Can what happened in Germany happen here...