By 1940 Nazi Germany had assigned the Gestapo to turn Terezín into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. It held primarily Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as tens of thousands …

Terezín (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtɛrɛziːn] ⓘ; German: Theresienstadt) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. It …

Terezín was one of the greatest deceptive ploys used by the Nazis during World War II. Located 40 miles northwest of Prague, the town of Theresienstadt (Terezín) was first converted into a …

Memorial site at the Ohře is located on the left bank of the Ohře river about 1 km downstream from Terezín. Here, in November 1944, the Nazis ordered urns with the ashes of 22,000 dead …

Terezín is a fortress built by the Enlightenment ruler Josef II and although the building named after his mother Maria Theresa was supposed to be used for defence, it paradoxically became …

Sep 15, 2025 · Terezín (Theresienstadt), a fortress town just an hour from Prague, stands as one of Europe’s most evocative Holocaust memorials—a place where echoes of tragedy, …

In 1942 the Nazis expelled 7,000 Czechs who lived in Terezín and isolated the Jewish community in a closed environment. The Nazis intended the camp to house elderly, privileged, and …

The Little Fortress at Terezin, a star-shaped thick-walled fortress, had long served as a prison. Few people were incarcerated here from the time it was opened in 1780 to Hitler, the one …

Theresienstadt was a combination of ghetto and concentration camp near the in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – the modern-day Czech Republic. It existed for three …

Terezín is a former military fortress located about 40 miles north of Prague, known for its transformation into the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Terezín is …