Visit the Memorial to the Concentration Camps at Terezin

The fortress that was built under Joseph II regained attention under terrible circumstances. Owing to its proximity to Prague, the fortress at Terezin was converted into a prison by the Prague Gestapo and the following year turned into a ghetto and concentration camp. Until 1945 approximately 27,000 men and 5,000 women were sent to the prison, of which about one fifth never left. In the Ghetto around 140,000 men, women and children from all over Europe had to bear to squalor and the rigors of forced labor before they were transported to the death camps at Auschwitz or Treblinka - if they survived that long.