http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Czech Republic , North , Terezin en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:13:57 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:13:57 UTC On Sunday we visited the Terezin concentration camp about an hour outside of Prague. I probably won't write much because you can imagine what happened there and I don't need to explain it. It was a very heavy day of seeing the living quarters showers or what they called showers and the camp itself. In between seeing the camp and walking over the museum where children drew pictures to keep t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-326594.html A stop on the road to death. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-322470.html Greetings It's the end of the second day in Prague. Tomorrow Monday we fly off to Budapest. We started out today at 9 am from the hotel walking over the the Jewish quarter. It's just five minutes from the hotel great location President Hotel and great hotel. the first building we entered the walls are all whitewashed inside and then the names of the 80000 Czech Jews who were murd http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-307973.html Went to Terezin with the folks from townthe museum today. They had the annual memorial today. When we got there I walked around a bit with two girls there that were my age from what I got out of it one of them was by bossrsquos girlfriendwifersquos daughter and thankfully remotely close to my age so that was nice lol. We were told to be back outside the complex by 10 for the ceremony ho http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-277899.html Crossed the Czech border it was just a group of empty buildings we barely slowed down. Today was a holiday so most shops etc were closed. But we were aiming for Terezin In German this is Thierenstadt and was one of the transit points for Jews on the way to labour and death camps. It is a walled city and basically the Nazis threw all of the inhabitants out and used it as a concentration camp. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-272218.html Today we planned for Terezin Theresienstadt concentration camp. Cheery subject eh Neither one of us has ever been to a concentration camp so this would be interesting. Terezin is reached by bus so immediately after breakfast we headed to the main bus station Florenc to figure out how to get to Terezin.It turns out buying a bus ticket to Terezin is relatively easy probably because so m http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-231673.html Saturday morning was our last in Berlin with only time to pack and make the trek back to Alexanderplatz with our backpacks for another early morning bus departure this time with Prague as the final destination. We made a stop in the Czech town of Terezn on the way where we were given a guided tour of the Theresienstadt concentration camp a Nazi concentration camp which was used to hold milita http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-200307.html Today was our visit to Terezin. All ten of us from Mizzou went. For a little background Terezin was a Gestapo Police Prison during World War II under the Nazis. Most inmates included people resisting the Nazi regime. This prison served as mostly a stopover as most prisoners were later sent to Nazi courts other prisons or concentration camps. While the Jews were not the only group of peop http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Terezin/blog-78293.html