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  Terezin (Theresienstadt)
Terezin (Theresienstadt) was founded as a garrison town in the late 18th Century, during the reign of Emperor
The Jews should be transferred from Terezin gradually to the death camps of Aktion Reinhard and Auschwitz.
Terezin also served to camouflage the extermination of the Jews from world opinion, by presenting it as a model Jewish settlement.
www.deathcamps.org /reinhard/terezin.html   (773 words)

  
 Terezin (Terezienstadt)
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.
Terezin, by comparison was a place to which people would apply so as to avoid a worse fate.
Terezin families were, in some instances, kept together at Birkenau, in family barracks, until their fate was met.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/terezin.html   (826 words)

  
 Vítejte v TEREZÍNĚ, na oficiálním informačním serveru města v ústeckém kraji
About 32.000 prisoners passed through the Minor Fortress between 1940 and 1945 of whom 2.500 were killed by hunger, disease, tyrannical guards and executions.
In 1941 the town of Terezin was changed by the Nazis to Jewish ghetto-transit camp.
Aim is to change town into functional university environment.
www.terezin.cz /EN/index.htm   (300 words)

  
  A visit to Terezin - photo.net
Originally built in the late 18th century, Terezin's Small Fortress served as a prison for military and political opponents to the Hapsburg monarchy in the early 19th century.
Terezin's Small Fortress was converted to a police prison of the Prague Gestapo in June 1940; in November 1941, a ghetto and concentration camp for Jews was established in the Large Fortress and town of Terezin.
In fact, one way that the inmates of Terezin found out about the gas chambers in the camps to the east was from a group of children who'd been shipped back to Terezin from Auschwitz.
photo.net /travel/bp/terezin   (10072 words)

  
  Terezin Concentration Camp
Originally built in the late 18th century, Terezin's Small Fortress served as a prison for military and political opponents to the Hapsburg monarchy in the early 19th century.
Terezin's Small Fortress was converted to a police prison of the Prague Gestapo in June 1940; in November 1941, a ghetto and concentration camp for Jews was established in the Large Fortress and town of Terezin.
And I'm in Terezin and the bus is late.
www.photo.net /bp/terezin   (9940 words)

  
 Music Review: Viktor Ullmann Remembered, by Stewart I. Cherlin
Terezin originally was a fortress built as a defensive outpost during Russian-Austrian War by the Austrian Empire.
Terezin was a charade camp established to deceive International Red Cross inspectors and the world that Jews were treated humanly and in a civilized matter by the Nazi regime.
Of the 140,000 Jews interned at Terezin 33,000 died of starvation and disease, 87, 000 were transported and perished in the Nazi death camps.
www.klezmershack.com /articles/cherlin/ullmann   (1131 words)

  
 The Prague Post Online
The summer exhibition at Terezin was titled "The Persistence of Memory," and memory is virtually all that remains of the mud-stained paintings paying homage to the French poet Robert Desnos.
Desnos was a political prisoner at Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp the Germans called Theresienstadt, where tens of thousands of Jews were detained before deportation to nearby death camps, mostly in Poland.
Terezin again became a town after the war but it is heavily dependent on tourists who seek out a piece of Jewish history in the former ghetto.
www.praguepost.com /P02/2002/20904/news2.php   (1090 words)

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