Terezin, Czech Republic

... 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, gypsies, ...

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... in it but can't live without it. Sounds exaggerated and metaphorical, but I think it's quite true. Last Saturday I went to Terezín with my American-Canadian classmantes Sundi and Daniel. This was the big concentration camp in the Czech Rep, and it 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 it ...

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 in ...