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They confronted the Nazis with the only weapon they had: their voice.
他們用他們唯一的武器—歌喉—與納粹對抗。
Song of Defiance
反抗之歌
by Fergus M. Bordewich
弗格斯·博德威奇
When you walk the cobbled mist-shrouded streets of Terezin in the Czech Republic, your mind fills with images of the village sixty years ago, when it was a Nazi concentration camp packed with desperate and dying Jews. But Terezin was not only a place of suffering. It was also a scene of triumph
當你行走在捷克共和國特雷津的霧氣籠罩的鋪著石子的街道上的時候，心里便會充滿著這座村子的六十年前的景象，當時那里是一座塞滿了絕望的奄奄一息的猶太人的納粹集中營。然而，特雷津并非僅僅是個遭受苦難的地方，它還是個贏得勝利的場所。
Terezin had been a perverse kind of showcase. In contrast to Auschwitz, Treblinka and other extermination camps, the Nazis designed the town near Prague to fool the world. For much ofWorld War II, Nazi propaganda suggested that Jews there enjoyed a life of leisure, even using captive Jewish filmmakers to craft a movie showing “happy” Jews listening to lectures and basking in the sun. The reality was horribly different. As many as 58,000 Jews were stuffed into a town that had originally held 7,000. Medical supplies were almost nonexistent, beds were infested with vermin and toilets overflowed. Of the 150,000 prisoners who passed through Terezin, 35,000 died there, mostly from disease and hunger.
特雷津曾經是處有點反常的展示櫥窗。與奧斯威辛、特雷布林卡等滅絕人的集中營不同，納粹將這座位于布拉格附近的村鎮刻意打扮以欺騙世人。第二次世界大戰期間的許多時間里，納粹的宣傳機器宣傳猶太人在那里過著悠閑的生活，他們甚至利用被抓捕的猶太制片人杜撰情節拍攝了一部電影，展示“愉快的”猶太人在聽講座和在曬太陽。而現實卻是迥然不同。這座原本只能容納7千人的小鎮如今卻擠著5萬8千個猶太人。幾乎沒有什么醫療設施，床上到處爬滿虱子等害蟲，廁所里污水外溢。曾在特雷津待過的15萬人中，3萬5千人死在那里，多數死于疾病和饑餓。
