Theresienstadt

There­sien­stadt, Czech Terezín – a town in the Ústí nad Labem region. In 1941, a so-called ​“Jew­ish ghet­to” was estab­lished here and the orig­i­nal inhab­i­tants of the town had to leave Terezín. The ghet­to served as a col­lec­tion camp for Jews before depor­ta­tion to the exter­mi­na­tion camps, but also as an ​“old-age” ghet­to for elder­ly Jews from Ger­many or Aus­tria or for Jew­ish nota­bles, promi­nent inter­war politi­cians, sci­en­tists, etc. About 155 thou­sand peo­ple passed through the ghet­to, of whom almost 120 thou­sand did not sur­vive the war. Through­out the war, the Terezín Small Fortress was a Gestapo prison where some Czech and Mora­vian Roma and Sin­ti were interned.