Will Greece be the new Auschwitz, but without the gas chambers? Auschwitz was built by design. The Greek refugee tragedy is being built through lack of European planning and inability to act.

IDOMENI, Greece —
Taha al-Ahmad’s family is sleeping in mud. His youngest daughter, age 1, lies beneath wet blankets, coughing inside their soggy tent. It has rained for days. Portable toilets are overflowing. Men burn firewood to stay warm. A drone circles overhead. Television trucks beam images of misery to the world.
It is primeval, and surreal, this squalid, improvised border camp of 12,000 refugees, a padlocked waiting room for entering the rest of Europe. Mr. Ahmad, barely two weeks out ofSyria, does not understand why his family cannot cross theMacedonian border— roughly a football field away — and continue towardGermany. Hundreds of thousands of migrants passed through last year, but nowMacedoniais closed. Europe’s door is slamming shut.
Read this article if you have the courage.
Taha al-Ahmad’s family is sleeping in mud. His youngest daughter, age 1, lies beneath wet blankets, coughing inside their soggy tent. It has rained for days. Portable toilets are overflowing. Men burn firewood to stay warm. A drone circles overhead. Television trucks beam images of misery to the world.
It is primeval, and surreal, this squalid, improvised border camp of 12,000 refugees, a padlocked waiting room for entering the rest of Europe. Mr. Ahmad, barely two weeks out ofSyria, does not understand why his family cannot cross theMacedonian border— roughly a football field away — and continue towardGermany. Hundreds of thousands of migrants passed through last year, but nowMacedoniais closed. Europe’s door is slamming shut.
Read this article if you have the courage.