Some 500 people gathered in the former Czech ghetto of Terezin to pay tribute to tens of thousands of victims of Nazism. Between 1940 and 1945, a total of 35,000 people died in the ghetto, and 100,000 were killed in concentration camps after being transported from the town.
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