Alaska Images
The following photographs were taken in Prince William Sound, Alaska during the summer of 2005. We were on a small boat naturalist tour (38 people plus crew) that allowed us to explore many areas that were off limits to large cruise boats. We spent part of every day in kayaks, getting even closer to the abundant wildlife and balancing oars with cameras.
Terezin Concentration Camp
Terezin, also known as Theresienstadt, was an eighteenth century fort that was converted into a concentration camp by the Nazis to house Jewish people from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Slovakia, and Hungary. During the war the Nazis used Terezin to make the International Red Cross and the world community believe that Terezin was a spa town, referring to Terezin as "the paradise ghetto.” In under four years, more than 140,000 men, women, and children were brought there. 33,000 died at Terezin, mostly of starvation, and the rest were transported to Nazi death camps elsewhere. 15,000 children lived in or passed through Terezin; approximately 100 survived.
