My lovely daughter took me to visit the Theresienstadt museum today. Theresienstadt, located in the Czech city of Terezin, was a model ghetto/concentration camp established by Nazi authorities to mendaciously showcase how well they treat the Jews under their rule. More than 155000 Jews entered Theresienstadt. Slightly more than 4100 survived. The majority of the prisoners were sent to death camps in the east, mainly in Poland. It is not a large museum. We surprised the staff who were not used to walk-ins. The exhibitions included mainly testimonies and relics found in Terezin after the war. One exhibition was devoted to the rich cultural life Theresienstadt's Jews built for themselves in order to escape their harrowing present. I don't want to engage in competitive comparisons to Israel's genocide in Palestine. But one commonality, I think, demonstrated both differences and similarities. This was the clear and persistent German and Israeli attempts to disrupt and dismantle every conceptual and physical framework from which their victims drew support in order to achieve the annihilation of the spirit as a necessary condition for the annihilation of the body itself, singular and collective. In both cases the family unit was intentionally broken up, to ensure a crippling solitude. There were no "homes" other than arbitrary ones decreed by authorities where one was forced to survive with strangers. In both cases the basic staples of life were overwhelmingly limited - water for cleanliness and nourishment, food, medical care. In both cases intentional "neglect" bred myriad illnesses and diseases to weed out the weak as the strong awaited violent death (in camps or by bomb and rifle and artillery). There was (and is) a conscious attempt by the liquidating power to instill fear in every aspect of life, to subdue the soul of the people and of every person.