Word: theresienstadt
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...hour chamber opera was composed in 1944 inside Theresienstadt, a "model" camp. The piece was in rehearsal but was banned after a similarity between the Emperor and the Führer was detected. Composer Viktor Ullmann, prolific in prewar Vienna, and Librettist Peter Kien, a young painter and poet, were later sent to Auschwitz, where they died. Their manuscript was rediscovered in London three years ago by British Conductor Kerry Woodward, who presented it with The Netherlands Opera Company in Amsterdam...
Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose wartime exile in Norway frees him of any Nazi taint, and other German leaders have no intention of letting people become sanguine about Hitler. "The names of Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Mauthausen and Schirmeck have lost none of their horror," President Gustav Heinemann reminds them. "Nothing can mitigate them, no rhetoric can dissipate them, they cannot and must not be relegated to oblivion...
...were isolated, weakened and abandoned." And until that terrible moment, there was the diabolical "tease-and-terror seesaw" psychology of the Nazis, who deliberately "cultivated the illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than 1,000,000 Jewish children who perished during the holocaust-it was a way station to Auschwitz's crematoria...
Vienna-born and educated, Dr. Frankl was spared by the Nazis until late 1942, when he was confined in Theresienstadt, and in 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz. His mother and his wife died in concentration camps. Another casualty was the manuscript of a book on which he had worked for years. Dr. Frankl survived three camps, and has written of his experiences with a keen humanism as well as psychiatric insight. Since World War II, he has won wider recognition, and he now heads the neurological department of Vienna's famed Poliklinik Hospital...
...German consulate in Copenhagen had leaked news of the plan to the Danes, and working in part with other sympathetic Germans, the Danish underground boldly thwarted the Nazis. Within two weeks 8,007 Jews were smuggled into Sweden; the Nazis snared only 460-of whom 400 survived in the Theresienstadt concentration camp largely because of continuing Danish political pressures. Clearly, the rescue of the Danish Jews by their fellow countrymen stands among the few bright moments in the dark night that fell upon European Jews...