In 1942, the boys and their mother were sent to the city of Theresienstadt, an area of north-western Czechoslovakia where the Nazis established a ghetto for the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia.Īt ages eight and 10, Micha and Dan became intimately familiar with death. Their father was sent to a forced labor camp, and their mother detained and tortured for six months. Everything changed,' Dan recalls.īoth of the boys parents were arrested. And then the war came and a completely different world. The idyllic life of the Glass family was to be shattered a year later with the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Their mother was a photographer who liked to document the family's life in photos, and their father an electrical engineer who enjoyed taking his boys skiing. They lived with their parents in the Czech city of Brno. In 1938 the two young brothers were happy school children. Jerusalem (CNN) - Micha and Dan Glass are not your ordinary Monopoly players. Two brothers kept the board and later donated it to Israel's Holocaust museumĪre you a Monopoly fan? Share your favorite photos, tributes and stories with CNN iReport.
Soviet troops liberated Theresienstadt in 1945.The Nazis created a ghetto in Theresienstadt, an area of north-western Czechoslovakia.An unofficial version of the popular board game was created in Theresienstadt.
