Alice Herz-Sommer was the last survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, a few dozen miles outside Prague. Theresienstadt, although advertised by the Nazis to be a place where artists were shielded from war, was in fact a death center, in which many displaced people died from starvation and infectious diseases, and of course it was a transit center for the extermination camps of Eastern Europe.
Listen to the 9th episode of the 14-part radio documentary series ”Silent tracks: The people behind the Holocaust”, based Thomas Sideris’ book by the same title.
[with Greek Audio].
Research, documentation, presentation: Thomas Sideris – journalist, Ph.D. in Social Geography