Soon after the construction of the Terezín fortress complex in the late 18th century one part of it, the Small Fortress, began to serve as a prison. Perhaps the most famous prisoners from the period before the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic were those placed there during the First World War. They were members of […]
Historical articles
The Personality of Doctor Jan Levit and his connection to Terezin repressive facilities
In connection with the imprisonment of Gavrilo Princip in the Small Fortress and his disease, the personality of Dr. Jan Levit is to be mentioned. Jan Levit was born in 1884 in Hořice at the foothills of the Giant Mountains. He was well familiar with the world of medicine from his childhood as his father […]
Rebellion in Rumburk and the Small Fortress Terezín
In the last year of the World War I, the background of the Austro-Hungarian Empire witnessed increasingly frequent manifestations of resistance and opposition to the continuing conflict. Not only wishes to terminate this too long lasting military conflict, but also starvation, non-payment to soldiers, mistreatment and denials of soldiers’ leaves instigated riots of the 3rd […]
Autumn transports of 1944 from the ghetto to the East reflected in prisoners’ recollections
The data in this article is based on the Terezín Memorial Exhibition “Through a Slip of Paper a Person’s Destiny is Decided[…]”, which was created on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the last wave of transports from the Terezín ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in autumn 1944. The Terezín ghetto in summer 1944 The events […]
