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ArtsTerezin Film Festival, Terezin Memorial, Arts news
In this week's Arts, Dita Asiedu looks at how the Terezin Memorial is
faring one year after the devastating floods, invites you to a film
festival in the town of terezin and an exhibition of photographs in
Prague, and reports why Czech President Vaclav Klaus may have to wait
longer than expected before moving into his office at Prague Castle:
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Current AffairsTerezin recovering, some residents still in temporary housing one year after floods
August 15 - 18 2002 are days that will remain in the minds of the people of
Terezin for many years to come. Not only because they still have vivid
memories of the horrors they endured when water from the Elbe and Ohre
rivers swept through their property, but also because many are still
living in temporary housing, waiting for their homes to dry out.
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Current AffairsTerezin boy who dreamt of flying to Moon to escape horrors of Earth
It's six days now since the Columbia disaster, a tragedy which has affected
many people around the world. Among the mourners are the people of Israel,
who had sent their first astronaut - Ilan Ramon - into space. Among the
few possessions Ramon chose to take with him was a drawing entitled
"Moon Landscape" - a view of the Earth as seen from the Moon.
The picture was drawn by a 14-year-old Jewish boy from Prague called Petr
Ginz, most probably during his imprisonment in the Terezin ghetto. One of
Ginz's closest friends at Terezin was a boy called Kurt Kotouc, who shared
his passion for science and space travel. The friendship came to an end in
1944, when both boys were sent to Auschwitz. Petr Ginz was killed
immediately, Kurt Kotouc survived. Now an elderly man, Kurt Kotouc
recalled their friendship with my colleague Rob Cameron.
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Current AffairsMiddle Europe's Mecca
Terezin - the place that became infamous as a Jewish ghetto in the Second
World War - is another historic Czech town that experienced this year's
disastrous floods. Among the cultural treasures of Terezin that were
severly damaged was Mecca, the Middle European Colony for Contemporary
Arts. Although a relative newcomer to the town's cultural scene, Mecca
nonetheless plays a very important role in revilitasing Terezin's culture.
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Current Affairs Holocaust survivors gather in Kolin to remember "special transport"
The brutal reprisals for the assassination 60 years ago of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia - Reinhardt Heydrich - are well known. Two villages - Lidice and Lezaky - were razed to the ground, their inhabitants shot or sent to concentration camps. But almost unknown is the fact that 1,000 Jews from the town of Kolin were rounded up and transported to the camps, never to be seen again. A handful were spared that "special" transport, among them the writer Hana Greenfield, who was later sent to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. This weekend she will join a group of 40 Jews from six congregations around the world, who will gather in Kolin to remember the dead.
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Letter from PragueUproar at plans to make Terezin 'porn film'
Over the last few weeks the Czech papers have been full of a man called Robert Rosenberg, and a rather unusual film project. Rosenberg is a porn star turned producer, and two weeks ago the Czech tabloid Super claimed he was planning to make a hard-core sex film in the former Terezin concentration camp. The paper even superimposed images of people indulging in graphic sex acts over pictures of the fortress's grim red-brick walls, to help those readers with little or no imagination. Unsurprisingly the report caused uproar - around 140,000 Jews from across Europe were herded into the Terezin ghetto, thousands died there, and almost 90,000 were later sent to Auschwitz. More
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