As a consequence, starvation and disease proved rampant. Six thousand drawings were hidden and later successfully retrieved to be displayed telling their poignant stories to thousands of viewers in Prague, Israel and at the U.S. The crematorium was supervised by SS-Scharführer Heindl, one of the camp's feared top officers, yet routine checks were carried out by the camp commanders as well. See the Small Fortress and the Ghetto Museum, too. Autopsies were conducted on some of the bodies before cremation so that imprisoned doctors could determine the cause of death in case it was not clear. In June 2018, a new monument was unveiled at the site of the camp to honor the victims of the Holocaust. Terezin in the Czech Republic was my first time to visit a concentration camp. Terezin developed a deep feeling of family according to many of the survivors. Order of the day of the Ghetto’s Self-administration on October 20, 1943 allowed the inmates access to the place, but not to the Columbarium itself. Once a proud military fortress and garrison town, Terezín became a place of sorrow during the blood-filled years of World War II. Day trips from Prague to the Terezin Concentration Camp (CZ) and Dresden (DE) Explore two major World War II sights in Central Europe in one day. The Czech Republic is renowned for its culture, wonderful scenery, bohemian castles and great beer but just one hour outside of Prague lies Terezín, a sleepy little town that holds a horrific testament to an age of unspeakable brutality. Arrivals and departures of transports were key components in the organization of the Terezín ghetto, but it is only now that a complete exhibition is being dedicated to them. All things considered, a death sentence already had been passed over all the prisoners, and that was why both the active participants and performing artists as well as organizers of such cultural programs were given a free hand and relative leeway. The Red Cross was allowed to visit Terezin once. One of these quarters in the building of the former Magdeburg barracks has been reconstructed and made open to the public. A civilian employee, assigned at the order of a local labor office, served as a stoker. We get down at town square bus stop which is right opposite the information center, obtained information on the town and bus schedule, and walk 15 minutes to the memorial. This was the Nazis' model "Jewish town", a concentration camp beautified and staged for propaganda purposes. The Little Fortress at Terezin, a star-shaped thick-walled fortress, had long served as a prison. This presents both works of art created by the best-known artists who stayed in the Ghetto as well as works by lesser-known authors. A former brickyard housed the camp´s crematorium built, between 1944 and 1945, by the German company Architekt Neumann. 140,000 people were deported here by the Nazis when it served them as a GESTAPO prison, ghetto and concentration camp during the Holocaust. En 1941, la population entière de Terezín est expulsée par la Gestapo, et la ville est transformée en camp de concentration notamment pour les juifs du territoire tchèque mais aussi, vers la fin de la guerre, des autres pays européens. View of the first courtyard of the Small Fortress of the concentration camp … A pride of place among the premises for worshipping during the existence of the Terezín Ghetto was held by the Jewish prayer room situated in today’s Dlouhá Street, which was discovered in the early 1990s. Until the end of the war more than 150,000 deportees passed through the camp, 35,000 of whom died there. As larger numbers of people were crammed into smaller spaces, a sense of community deepened. The exhibition includes an on-line search facility enabling visitors to look up former ghetto prisoners by name and find information about them from the database maintained by the Terezín Memorial. The guide was friendly and extremely knowledgable. A sleepy countryside town today, Terezín epitomizes one of history’s darkest chapters. The building containing the new exhibition is located where there used to be a railway line that played a key role in the transports, giving direct access to the ghetto. The Jewish Ghetto was created in 1941. These artists also stole materials so the children could surreptitiously create their works of art. Il existe un tunnel sous-terrain de presqu’un kilomètre… Some four thousand Jews from different European countries constituted a large group among the prison population. In 1994 a new permanent exhibition was opened here, devoted to the history of the political prison; it bears witness to the persecution of the Czech nation under the Nazi regime during the Second World War, and records the fates of Czech prisoners transferred to other concentration camps within the Nazi German Reich. Il vous emmènera jusqu'au mémorial de Terezín, établi par le régime nazi en 1941. In terms of decoration, namely its professionally rendered murals and texts, this is unique among all the similar premises used as prayer rooms in the former Ghetto. In the town of Terezin, the population had normally been around 5,000 people before the war. Launched into operation in April 1945, the Crematorium incinerated some four hundred victims of the Litoměřice camp as well as 52 inmates, shot dead on May 2, 1945 during the last wartime execution in the Police Prison in Terezín. In the town of Terezin, the population had normally been around 5,000 people before the war. See the concentration camp as it is today and the small town, visit inside the barracks and the Ghetto Museum. The exhibition to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the nazi repressive facilities in Terezín and Litoměřice, Replica of a prison dormitory from the Ghetto period, Truth and Lies. Paradoxically, it later gained infamy first as a prison and then later during World War II as a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. Access road to the Columbarium started with a passageway in the bottleneck of the redoubt of ravelin XVI, known at the time of the Ghetto as Block A III, which housed the medical library with a reading room and the Columbarium offices. The Barracks housed the offices of the different departments of the Ghetto’s so-called Jewish Self-administration, as well as flats of some of the Ghetto’s leading office holders. Essential info* Instant confirmation. Un lieu à l'histoire tragique et sordide. Joseph II named this village after his mother, Maria Teresia, calling it Terezin. These prisoners were primarily from Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Greece. Day trips from Prague to the Terezin Concentration Camp (CZ) and Dresden (DE) Explore two major World War II sights in Central Europe in one day. Cremation records were kept in daily logs; each urn listed basic information about the deceased that were copied from a card attached to the foot of the deceased. The Small Fortress exhibition spaces are used for short-term exhibitions, documentary films are shown in the cinema, and a variety of brochures, books, videocassettes and souvenirs are on sale. Experience all of this with your own private tour guide. From 1944 - 1945, the crematorium also burned dead bodies from the Litoměřice concentration camp that had a high mortality due to horrifying working conditions and epidemics. 30,000 victims, cremated from 1942 to 1945. Once a proud military fortress, the town Terezin has become a place of sorrow during the blood-filled years of the Second World War. But the Magdeburg Barracks were also known as a venue of major cultural events, divine services, lectures and meetings. The latter display is found at the end of the corridor, opposite the reconstructed dormitory from the time of the Ghetto, where the sightseeing tour of the Museum exhibitions started. By 1940, Germany assigned the Gestapo to adapt Terezín, better known by the German name Theresienstadt , as a ghetto and concentration camp. Between October 16, 1941, and liberation on May 8, 1945, more than 155,000 Jews passed through Theresienstadt. The so-called Ghetto, a concentration camp for Jewish prisoners from the then Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, later also from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia and Hungary, was established in Terezín on November 24, 1941. Two furnaces, designed to incinerate six bodies at a time, were installed in a space measuring 20 by 8 meters. The elderly and families were brought in large numbers to Terezin. At the time of the so-called beautification project preparing the Ghetto for a visit of a foreign delegation, a stone pylon topped with a jug-shaped vase was erected in the bottleneck of the lunette of assembly point XXVII. The message of the Czech exhibition in Auschwitz is to show the mechanism of deportations from the former Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia to Auschwitz on the background of then situation in the country, above all in the context of the occupational politics of Nazi Germany. By 1940 Nazi Germany had assigned the Gestapo to turn Terezín into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. Because it was easily accessible and easy to guard, the Austrians used it to strengthen their defense system against the Prussians. In the times of Austria–Prussia rivalry, it was meant to secure the bridges across the Ohře and Elbe Rivers against Prussian troops invading the Bohemian lands from neighbouring Saxony. Notable musicians, writers, artists, and leaders were sent there for “safer” keeping than was to be afforded elsewhere in Hitler’s quest to stave off any uprisings or objections around the so-called civilized world. In the remaining exhibition premises, visitors may view an exhibition called ”Art in the Terezín Ghetto“. They included the name, transport number and cremation number. Thousands of urns were placed in shelves there, as SS officers wanted to make the prisoners believe that the remains would receive proper burial after the war. Its cardinal wartime importance was eventually reflected in a plan to reconstruct the entire building and use it for museological and educational purposes. The front section served as a space for unloading the corpses from coffins. After the Crematorium in the Jewish Cemetery launched its operation it was necessary to find space for laying the ashes of the thousands of victims. A film was made to show this mythic, idyllic city. The space near the pylon was called the Memorial Site of the Columbarium. Dead prisoners from the nearby police prison of the Small Fortress were also brought to the crematorium. The Ghetto Museum also presents short-term exhibitions, documentary films are shown in the cinema, and a variety of brochures, books, videocassettes and souvenirs are on sale. Workers operating the incinerators tried to get all the human remains out individually and place them properly in the urns. There is no way to compare Terezin to Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka or any of the other death camps where hundreds of thousands were gassed or murdered in other ways each year. During this tour you will see the historical center of Dresden, which was completely destroyed by the controversial Allied aerial bombing toward the end of World War II and later rebuilt.