“...but a for-show model camp that exhibited for propaganda purposes well-fed Jews...”
Interesting. While some of the captives in the film were gaunt, they weren’t the skin and bone that I’ve seen photos of from the death camps.
The band “RUSH” did a song about freeing a death camp. Singer Geddy Lee’s parents met in a camp, and after being set free the camps were made into refugee centers and they were married in one.
I can only imagine what the prisoners thought when they saw a column of military approaching the train.
“I hear the sound of gunfire
At the prison gate
Are the liberators here-
Do I hope or do I fear?”
I have in my possession a collection of poems written by the children of Theresienstadt and translated into English, with artwork. Some historical society or other published it.