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Former SS officer Julius Viel has been found guilty by a German court and sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting dead 7 Jewish prisoners from the Terezin concentration camp in March 1945. 56 years have passed since the event, Viel is now 83 years old, and some people ask whether there is any sense in punishing such an old man after more than half a century. According to the German media this is the last Nazi war crime trial. asked the secretary of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Tomas Kraus, whether he thinks this is the case:
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Current AffairsCamp for artists established in Terezin
A camp for artists and musicians has been set up in the former World War Two internment town of Terezin. The project - called the Terezin Intermediate Summer - has attracted a number of artists from across the world, with it's various workshops being housed in the town's disused army fortifications. traveled to the camp where he first spoke to the festival's main organizer, the glass artist Petr Larva: More
Current AffairsTerezin art project under way
The little garrison town of Terezin, 50 kilometres north of Prague, has a tragic place in Czech history. In the course of the Second World War, the Nazis turned the entire town into a ghetto for Jews from all over Europe. All but a tiny handful of the 150 000 people who passed through the ghetto died, either in Terezin itself or in the Nazi death camps. After the war, Terezin once again became a garrison town. It was not until the mid-1990s that the Czech Army left, leaving Terezin little more than a ghost town, haunted by the shadow of its past. But although it only has around 2,000 permanent inhabitants, there are people who want to make the town live again. Radio Prague's spoke with Petr Larva, who has initiated an ambitious international arts project in some of Terezin's abandoned army buildings, and he told her about an unusual cultural centre, now being set up. More
