OPINION - Havering council's attempt to cancel Hanukkah sent a truly chilling message
by Jack Kessler
Dec 01, 2023
3 minutes
The sky was rarely darker than on a moonless night in Theresienstadt. Of the 140,000 Czech Jews imprisoned in the concentration camp-ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a quarter died of disease or starvation. The rest were carted away, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps in the East. Yet even in Theresienstadt, there was Hanukkah.
In May 1942, the modernist sculptor and architect Arnold Zadikow was rounded up with his family and deported to the prison camp. He was put to work
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