Liga Terezin ( English subtitles)

A documentary film that tells the incredible story of the soccer league which took place in Ghetto Theresienstadt, (today in the Czech Republic). From 1942 to 1944, Jewish prisoners played hundreds of soccer matches on improvised fields set up in the courtyard of the Barracks where they lived. Thousands of spectators watched a mixture of professional and amateur players and briefly escaped the reality of their terrible plight: hunger, sickness, and death. All the while, they lived in a shroud of fear cast by the terror of the transports that sent people to the 'East' and their certain death.