The title of my blog post today comes from what a young man named Jon said while playing a new board game, which was designed by Brenda Braithwaite. You can read the full story on The Daily Beast here.
The new game, which is based on the Holocaust, is called “Train” and it involves putting pawns (representing people) into trains; the player does not know what the destination of the train will be until he draws a “Terminus” card with the name of the concentration camp at which the people have arrived. According to the Daily Beast article, when a player named Helen drew her first Terminus card, she showed it to Jon, who said, “Bergen-Belsen, nice! It’s so fun to say.” (more…)
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