Sunday 12 August 2012

Fri. 10 Aug. Rest day in Litomerice.


Today we had a rest day from the Labe walk. We took a side trip beside the river Ohre, a major tributary of the Labe, to visit Terezin. This town is better known by its German name Theresienstadt. 

It was here where many Jews from across Europe were imprisoned during WW II before being shipped to extermination camps where they were murdered. I found it an extremely moving and depressing location. That one group of "civilized" people could inflict such suffering on another group is almost incredible in the modern Europe. However we have yet to visit Dresden.

Even today, to me at least, Terezin is a movingly sad town. It seems like a town that has lost the will to live.

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