Current Affairs Could Terezin house a European Holocaust Centre?
Few places have such an eerie atmosphere as the little walled garrison town of Terezin, north of Prague. During the Second World War the Nazis turned the entire town into a Jewish ghetto; 155,000 people passed through its gates and of those who survived the grim conditions, the great majority later died in the death camps of the east. Today this dark legacy still hangs over Terezin. If you walk down its empty streets, the ghosts of the past often seem more real than the life of the town in the present day. Finding ways of reviving Terezin in a way that is sensitive to its tragic past is proving a huge problem. David Vaughan has been following the latest proposal put forward by the governor of the North Bohemian region, Jiri Sulc.
National Cemetery in Terezin
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