"Hotel Terezin" Today I visited Terezin - Theresenstadt - the fortified city that became a Jewish ghetto during World War II. Prior to the 1940s and, again since then, Terezin was an actual town. First for the military and then for civilians as well. Walking through Terezin as visitors to a "museum" of the Ghetto, it was jarring and upsetting to be shaken out of the past by cars careening down the streets with their stereos blaring.
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