Terezin

Good evening everybody! Today we started our day with a city tour of Prague. The first half of the tour was done while riding on a bus and in case you were wondering; yes Ron and I are the youngest cruisers. Anyhow I found out today that Prague is known as the "City of Golden Spires" because they have so many churches. The guide said most of the …

Our first morning up early so we could take a day trip to Terezin. We hired a car and driver to take us.

Our first stop was at the Lesser Fortress, a Czech fort converted to a prison camp by the Germans in WWII. Horrific numbers of people died at the camp because of the overcrowding, lack of nutrition and work conditions. The cemetery …

Prague is cold. I mean really freezing cold. I was cold all day during our morning at the old town square and at the Terezin Concentration Camp. There was no warmer part of the day - it was just cold all the way through.

We started in the cold and headed to the Old Town Square. We took the trollies there, which seems to be what most people …

Early morning today. Off to see Terezin, which to all you WWII history buffs is a German Transit camp. The Germans would keep prisoners here for slave labour before sending them off to one of the major concentration camps. Just like Auschwitz, Terezin is an eye opening experience. Deplorable conditions and some of the most depressing scenes any …

Ciao a tutti! I hope you all had a lovely thanksgiving, I miss you all!!

My Thanksgiving was delightful, because I spent it in Prague! I left Thursday morning (and skipped class, it was just like high school, but cooler) and got on a bus and then a plane for Prague! I left Florence with my friend Mary, who was also doing the program (I …

... Dresden on route from Berlin, a tour of the Terezin Memorial, a Gestapo Police Prison, was our introduction to the Czech Republic. It was unfortunately a short visit, but the extend to which people, amongst them Jews, homosexuals, professionals, ...

... reports about the incredible conditions Jews lived in, with parks, cafes, music, concerts... A great deal of artists, Jewish, Czech, everything, were sent here and they had some relative freedom to work on their works,  especially ...

... big Terezin is, we spent about 5 hours there and we just visited a few of the key buildings. Unfortunately, nearly all of Terezin’s Jew’s, numbering 155,000 over the course of the war, died there or in extermination camps elsewhere. What is ...

... which was then converted to a concentration camp by the Germans during world war ii (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/terezin.html). It was the first time I had visited a concentration camp or anything of that nature, so of course ...

Today we did a daytrip that really had a huge impact on us. We went to visit Terezin Czech Republic. This is where during WWII they set up a a Jewish Ghetto and prison camp. The town of Terezin was originally built as a fortress town for protection back ...

... about the Jewish community of Prague, we found that during WWII many of the Jews, including many children were sent to Terezin consentration camp, which was a transit camp to bigger death camps such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belson. We were really moved ...

... of Litomerice, but we would not be there very long pretty much only to get a good lunch before moving on to Terezin. Terezin is a town in the Czech Republic about an hour and a half outside of Prague, it was originally built as a military fortress and a ...

... prisoners here for slave labour before sending them off to one of the major concentration camps.  Just like Auschwitz, Terezin is an eye opening experience.  Deplorable conditions and some of the most depressing scenes any person could ...

... literally. During WWII, Jews from all over Europe were displaced from their homes.  One place they were moved to was Terezin, Czech Republic.  It's a small town about an hour away from Prague.  In the 1930s, it became a rest stop for ...

An hour north of Prague, this was a very interesting and disturbing visit to this special Austrian fortress from pre-Czech Republic days, named for Empress Maria Teresa and built in the late 1700's, that was seized by the Germans and used as a prison and ...