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Current AffairsSurvivors remember first transport to Terezín in winter of 1941
It's exactly seventy years since the first transport of Czechoslovak Jews
left Prague, bound for the garrison town of Terezín, transformed by the
Nazis into a ghetto and concentration camp. Some 140,000 Jewish men, women
and children were sent to Terezín, known as Theresienstadt in German; most
of them were later killed at Auschwitz. A number of events were held this
week bringing together Terezín survivors, one of them on Thursday evening
at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. More
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This week in Mailbox: the proposed exhumation of the remains of the Danish
astronomer Tycho Brahe, the history of Charles University, a link to the
latest edition of Czech Books, the government’s approval to sell the
Czech national carrier. Listeners quoted: Swen Gummich, Klaus Jurascheck,
Abigail Hirsch, Aloisie Krasny.
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