Visit the Memorial to the
Concentration Camps at Terezin and Lidice

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. After the Deputy Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated on 4 th of July in 1942, the German occupying forces imposed a second military law and the death penalty on 1412 people in Lidice. The majority of the population in Lidice did not survive and the small number of those who had survived, were sent to concentration camps.

As part of the excursion our guide will meet you in Prague and take you to the memorial, where after a tour of the concentration camp you will watch a documentary. Next you will visit the museum and memorial at Lidice.