Terezín Memorial - Ghetto Museum — Attraction in okres Litoměřice

A living monument of Nazi cruelty. It's always hard to imagine such places exist unless you see them for yourself. Essentially a Czech town converted into a ghetto for Jews. Ostensibly a labour Camp and accommodation. In reality a huge ghetto, or collection point, for the processing of Jews on their way to their deaths either locally or further afield. For many, Terezin was the interim stage of their final journey to Sorbibor, Auschwitz and Birkenau. The Terezin Fortress is also part of this, so be sure to visit. There are, or course, several organised tours available, but they can be rather fast-paced and it betrays the enormous scale of the place. I would suggest making a day of it (car rental for example) although everywhere is walkable if you're prepared to put in the effort. The only obstacle is Terezin's location, some 60km north of Prague, but as I said, there are bus tours. Regular buses go there too from Florenc bus station and that's a cheaper option (buses from stand 16 or 17, maybe both). Trains are an option although this includes a bus transfer from Bohusovice nad Ohri in order to get into Terezin. I'm rambling on, sorry. If you wish to see the real Czech Republic and step away from the Prague tourist traps then get yourself to Terezin, it's that simple. One last thing, perhaps NOT the best place to bring...

This place is amazing.

It humbled and broke my heart to visit here. A place where prisoners were housed prior to being transferred to concentration camps across Europe

You can see the cramped spaces on site and the bathrooms that never worked. You can see the basins and dorms which were not designed for the number of people cramped into such small places.

You can feel the despair of the inmates who’s destined was assured the minute they stepped through those doors.

Beside the camp are the burial grounds where the names of the victims are etched in stone and Jewish graves with stones which are left there instead of flowers as per Jewish tradition

Graves of Christians lay side by side.

It is worth taking a tour out to this place as they bring you to the museum where you can see passports and drawings and suitcases from inmates who never made it back

A part of history we cannot ignite or forget.

All photo are from my trip there...

Though not a concentration camp of d Nazi regime, d atrocities here have bin mortifying too. Gave a clear picture of the abject conditions in wich the prisoners were kept here.The guides. .Explained it very well .N the entire museum .Alongwith the small fortress n big fortress has bin curated very aesthetically...N sensitively. N our guide from Good Your, Mike Jesus Langer was fantastic n his knowledge of the history was exemplary. I was feeling extremely wretched at d atrocities...But I was also more informed now of...