Word: theresienstadt
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...NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is honored by the network in an unusual fashion-a program based on the drawings and poems done between 1942 and 1945 by the children tragically imprisoned in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp near Prague. In all, some 15,000 children were held at Theresienstadt; 100 survived...
...Representative Council of German Jews. He did what little he could to mitigate the hardships of life under the Nazis and arranged for the emigration of more than 40,000 Jews. Baeck refused to go into exile himself; in 1943 he was arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where his four sisters died. Baeck survived only by accident: the SS assumed that they had liquidated the leader of German Jewry when another rabbi, named Beck, died...
...years at Theresienstadt, Baeck conducted illegal services and seminars at night, took charge of a camp governing body that cared for the sick and the aged. When the camp was liberated, he persuaded the surviving prisoners not to take their vengeance on Nazi officials turned over to them by the Russians. Until his death, at 83, Baeck lived in London, although for five years he commuted to Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College to lecture on Jewish history. The future of Judaism, Baeck believed, lay in the U.S.-the only country in history that has allowed 5,000,000 Jews...
Great Dissenters. Much of This People Israel, which was first published in Germany in 1955, was written on scraps of paper at Theresienstadt; yet it is a book that breathes a spirit of peace and hope. Writing a theology of history, Baeck traces the unfolding of Judaism's central concepts-Torah, Talmud, Halacha-from the Exodus to the Nazi holocaust and the creation of modern Israel. The history of Judaism, he says, is a story of a people's encounters with God; the Jews were the first to perceive the unique oneness of God, the first to proclaim...
...that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women? Old people? Children?" At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Eichmann's defiant boast: "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5,000,000 human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary...