70 years have passed since the sad events in Autumn 1941. What had preceded them? What did 15th March 1939, the day of occupation by Nazi Germany, mean for solving the Jewish question? As early as on 21st June 1939, the Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath issued a comprehensive decree on Jewish property, forbade Jews […]
Historical articles
On the autumn transports of 1944
The summer of 1944 in Terezín was marked by the visit from the International Red Cross delegation and the film shooting that followed. Both of these brought hope of liberation to the prisoners of the ghetto. People appeared to be happier and whey they discussed the war, they saw the Allies as their saviours. However, […]
Terezín ghetto by the end of the war (continued from Newsletter 1/2010)
The early spring of 1945 found the ghetto putting on a front once again. And once again, everything was being mended, renovated, just like the year before (in the spring of 1944). The “redecorated” town was to serve as a proof of the care supposedly provided to elderly Jewish inmates. Special homes for the elderly […]
The last execution in Terezín
On the day Berlin was conquered by the Soviet troops, 2 May 1945, when the defeat of Nazi Germany was already irreversible, the last and historically largest execution took place in Terezín’s Gestapo police prison. Six days before the Red Army arrived in Terezín, 51 mostly young members of leftist resistance groups were killed by […]