The great lie of Terezin

Starting November 1941, the Nazis transformed the fortress of Theresienstadt, in the Czech Republic annexed in 1938, into a ghetto thanks to the funding of Jewish families: yes, because the lie was that a safe place was being created where they could live in peace. At first it was the Nazi propaganda camp. In Terezin we saw videos of the time when a peaceful place was portrayed: young people playing ball, mature people engaged in all apparently normal activities.

But there was a wall. Not the first and unfortunately not the last.

And there were those glances that the camera and the propaganda montage could not avoid and could not cut. Looks of deep bitterness, the looks of those who saw their elderly and sick confined to the attics to die of heat. Officially, no one was killed in Terezin. Or rather, no one was exterminated. They died of starvation and disease in hot attics.

Then they were sent to the extermination camps.

Terzin is a unique testimony of the Holocaust for the written testimonies, the thousands of children's drawings that the Nazis could not destroy. Living testimonies, first-hand and unfiltered, terrible and moving.