Terezin (Theresienstadt): Photographs
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This armband for a Jews in Theresienstadt was brought back to America by a U.S. Army Captain investigating the concentration camps in preparation for the Nuremberg war crimes trials. -
Prisoner cell block A at the Little Fortress of Terezin -
Prisoner cell block B at the Little Fortress of Terezin -
A transport of Dutch Jews arrives in Theresienstadt. Dr. Paul Epstein, chairman of the Council of Elders, greets the new arrivals. -
A transport of Dutch Jews arrives in Theresienstadt. Close-up of a man wearing a yellow star walking down a ghetto street. Behind him a man pulls a wagon of bread. -
Entrance to Small Fortress of Terezin camp. The gate bears the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work makes one free) -
Cemetery outside of Terezin where the ashes of thousands of unknown victims that had been thrown in the river were reburied with symbolic markers. -
Cemetery outside of Terezin where the ashes of thousands of unknown victims that had been thrown in the river were reburied with symbolic markers. -
After the war, families of some of the victims had markers made in a separate section to honor their loved ones. -
Inside the former ghetto of Terezin. Today, it is a residential area. -
Inside the former ghetto of Terezin. Today, it is a residential area. This building houses exhibits on the ghetto. -
Symbolic cemetery at the Little Fortress for the victims of Terezin. The identities of those buried is unknown. -
Symbolic cemetery at the Little Fortress for the victims of Terezin. The identities of those buried is unknown. -
Symbolic cemetery at the Little Fortress for the victims of Terezin. The identities of those buried is unknown. -
Main entrance to the Little Fortress of Terezin. -
A woman receives a bowl of soup in Theresienstadt -
Wash room constructed at the Little Fortress of Terezin for the Red Cross visit. It was never used. -
Postcard from Theresienstadt. Every prisoner was allowed to receive and send one letter per month of no more than 2 pages with 15 lines each. -
Prison cell in the Little Fortress at Terezin. -
Shower in the Little Fortress at Terezin. -
A teenage girl arrives in Theresienstadt carrying two pots -
Original stamp from Theresienstadt concentration camp, dated July 10, 1943. -
The crematorium at Terezin. -
"Receipt" Nazis gave Jews as they robbed them of their last pennies in Terezin Ghetto -
Monument to the victims of Terezin. -
Entrance to the Terezin museum. -
Shower used to torture prisoners at the Little Fortress of Terezin -
Windows to prisoners' cells that were opened so the prisoners could hear the anguished cries of those being tortured. -
View of the train station in Theresienstadt-Bauschowitz (Bohusovice) taken during the arrival of a transport of Dutch Jews. -
Tracks that once carried trainloads of Jews to the ghetto of Terezin. -
A view of the barracks and the crematorium in Theresienstadt. -
Part of the perimeter of the Little Fortress of Terezin.
Sources:
Mitchell Bard, USHMM, Shoah - The Holocaust, The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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