Theresienstadt | Holocaust Encyclopedia
During its existence, Theresienstadt served three purposes: Theresienstadt served as a transit camp for Czech Jews whom the Germans deported to killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in German-occupied Poland, Belorussia, and the Baltic States. It was a ghetto-labor camp.
Theresienstadt Ghetto - Wikipedia
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps.
Theresienstadt | Concentration Camp, Map, World War II,
Theresienstadt, town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), founded in 1780 and used from 1941 to 1945 by Nazi Germany as a walled ghetto, or concentration camp, and as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.
Theresienstadt: Concentration/Transit Camp for German and …
Theresienstadt was a concentration camp and a transit camp en route to the killing centers in the east. At peak capacity, in September 1942, Theresienstadt held approximately 60,000 prisoners crammed into an area with streets barely over 700 yards long.
Terezín - Wikipedia
By 1940, Germany assigned the Gestapo to adapt Terezín, better known by the German name Theresienstadt, as a ghetto and concentration camp. Considerable work was done in the next two years to adapt the complex for the dense overcrowding that inmates would be subjected to.
What was Theresienstadt and why is it sometimes called Terezin?
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 and a half years from November 1941 until May 1945.
Theresienstadt - Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust …
Theresienstadt, established as a ghetto and transit camp in 1941, was presented as a model Jewish settlement for propaganda purposes. Despite congestion, hunger and forced labor, educational and cultural activities abounded. 35,440 Jews …
Conditions inside Theresienstadt - The Holocaust Explained
The Nazis removed 7503 Jews from Theresienstadt between 16 and 18 May 1944 to reduce overcrowding at the ghetto, holding them in a special camp at Auschwitz in case the Red Cross requested to visit them there.
Theresienstadt: Final Weeks, Liberation, and Postwar Trials
Between April 20 and May 2, 1945, Theresienstadt lost its unique character with the flow of between 13,500 and 15,000 concentration camp prisoners into the camp-ghetto from other concentration camps (primarily Buchenwald and Gross …
Theresienstadt | The National Holocaust Centre and Museum
Theresienstadt was simultaneously a ghetto, transit camp, and concentration camp. It operated between November 24, 1941 and May 9, 1945, when it was entered by Soviet troops.