Muzeum ghetta at Terezín

The illuminated red stripes on the museum floor represent the rails by which nearly everyone in Terezín was, eventually, transferred to Auschwitz or another eastern extermination camp.

Smooth sailing, so far

June 18th 2005
Greetings again from Praha (Prague)! Today I believe I have been successful at entertaining myself. I did, indeed, get up earlyish and catch a guided bus tour to Terezín (Theresienstadt in German), a former Nazi concentration camp and Jewish ghetto located about 60 km north of Praha. The bus tour was definitely the right way to go... because the entire town of Terezín comprises the museum, sp ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more

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