Word: theresienstadt
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...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...