JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. TEREZINSTADTLAGER I

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Shalom! World.


“A grave among graves, who can tell it apart, time has long swept away the dead faces. Testemonies, só evil and terrible to the heart, we took with us to these dark rotting places.

Only the night and the howl of the wind will sit on the graves' corners, only a patch of grass, a bitter weed before May bears some flowers ...” Jaroslav Seifert

TEREZIN.

Finalmente surge uma oportunidade de iniciarmos a nossa jornada neste novo roteiro judaico. A bordo do TGV rumo à Paris relato o inicio desta narrativa. Uma questão foi repetitiva nos momentos que antecederam The Start e durante o desenrolar desta missão: a viagem é turismo ou profissional? Felizmente posso afirmar que ambas as respostas são válidas. Tal realidade proporcionou-me uma tranquilidade para refletir sobre a experiência vivida. O objetivo desta narrativa não pode ser confundida num relato turístico superficial e imediatista, ele é sobretudo um relato de como viver e ser judeu, ou seja, mantendo a identidade judaica de uma forma afirmativa.

O inicio desta jornada é na República Checa com Praga, Prague ou Praha. As três formas são sedutoras, posso afirmar. Ao tratar do roteiro destaquei alguns itens imprescindíveis: Terezinstadt (Terezin), Memorial of Lidice (Lidice), e Josefov (Prague).

Terezin fica a cerca de uma hora de ônibus de Prague. As fotos falarão por mim. Terezin contém quatro sítios destacados: 1) O Krematorium; 2) The Main Fortess; 3) Litomerice Concentration Cam; e 3) Terezin Small Fortress. Qual o objetivo de propagar a memória material dos Campos de Concentração e de Extermínio? Destaco dois pontos: a) evitar que a passagem do tempo possa germinar nas novas gerações a dúvida de sua existência e num segundo momento afirmar que o perigo sobre a existência das minorias, não está confinada em sociedade subdesenvolvidas e primitivas. O Shoah foi protagonizado por uma sociedade de primeiro mundo, o nazismo introduziu como plataforma política o extermínio de um povo: o judeu!

Terezin manteve em suas celas cerca de 200.000 pessoas de trinta países entre 1940 e 1945.

O estado de conservação das instalações históricas de Terezinstadt é arrepiante, pois despeja no visitante uma sensação de um”agora” naquela dolorosa existência histórica.

Relato que um dia inteiro é necessário para a visita. No centro de Terezin há o Ghetto Museum (Principova alej 304) onde se visitará os sítios históricos e o Museu. Saindo umas 9 horas da manhã e retornando às 16 horas, isto no outono no qual os dias são mais curtos. Há um restaurante dentro das instalações , ou se preferir pode-se ir ao centro de Terezin e optar por vários locais. Novembro é tempo de um frio suportável, algo em torno de zero grau, nada comparável aos 20° negativos que enfrentei em fevereiro em Auschiwitz. Observem a tecnologia em favor da morte, quando das imagens do Krematorium. Várias empresas alemãs tinham total consciência do objetivo ao qual seus produtos serviriam.

Shalom! Aleichem.

Jacob Jr.

Suporte Cultural: SOUL e L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Mond/Fr











Central Guetto Morgue


Central Guetto Morgue

Estes caixões eram utilizados repetidas vezes com o objetivo de levar os corpos para o Krematorium.

Krematorium House - It's furnaces swallowed a total of 30.000 victims of the Ghetto, Small Fortress and Litomerice. 


Avenida das Nações - Contém 13 obeliscos com os nomes dos países pertencentes aos seus cidadãos que foram vítimas em Terezinstadtlager.

With the exception of few cemeteries still serving for burials where people can visit the graves of theier relatives, Jewish cemeteries en the Czech lands have largely become memorials and witnesses of the past. Most of them have been damaged or completely destrooyed. Today there are up to 340 such burial sites near Czech and Moravian towns and villages. One of them is the Jewish cemetery in Terezin. Although very young - several decades ago - the cemetery also gives evidence of human hatred and extermination of people branded - acccording to a perverted ideology - as worthless. That is why the Jewish cemetery in Terezin is also a memorial to the genocide of the Jews.





The first memorial to the Jewish victims of Terezin. It was erected in the Jewish cemetery by the Jewish Religious Communities in Czech in 1955.



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