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What is Terezin?

How did Terezin become a concentration camp in 1941?

Who was transported to Terezin?

It was an attempt to make the Germans look humanitarian in the eyes of the Free World!

“created by Germans to solve an awkward problem they encountered…what to do with certain special categories of Jews”

“the Nazis had no clearly formulated plans for the Jews of Europe”

“Jews were prohibited from leaving Europe in 1941 as the Nazis planned to kill every living Jew”

“Terezin became a model ghetto to be inhabited and governed by the Jews”

“Privileged Jews”

Intellectuals and writers

Actors, artists, composers and conductors

Jews married to Aryans

Veterans of the First World War

Half-Jews

Jews of all ages

How did Terezin become a concentration camp in 1941?

It was an attempt to make the Germans look humanitarian in the eyes of the Free World!

“created by Germans to solve an awkward problem they encountered…what to do with certain special categories of Jews”

“the Nazis had no clearly formulated plans for the Jews of Europe”

“Jews were prohibited from leaving Europe in 1941 as the Nazis planned to kill every living Jew”

“Terezin became a model ghetto to be inhabited and governed by the Jews”

What is Terezin?

How did Terezin become a concentration camp in 1941?

It was an attempt to make the Germans look humanitarian in the eyes of the Free World!

“created by Germans to solve an awkward problem they encountered…what to do with certain special categories of Jews”

“the Nazis had no clearly formulated plans for the Jews of Europe”

“Jews were prohibited from leaving Europe in 1941 as the Nazis planned to kill every living Jew”

“Terezin became a model ghetto to be inhabited and governed by the Jews”

What actually went on inside the walls of Terezin?

Men were separated from women and children

It was forbidden to write home.

Smoking was punished.

Nobody was allowed to walk on pavement.

Every uniformed person had to be saluted.

There were no vehicles for transport.

There was not enough fuel,

food or water.

The elderly died alone of dysentery.

“a Czech town, formed in 1780, nestled where two rivers meet”

“surrounded by thick, octagon-shaped walls”

“narrow streets joined at right angles”

“homes dark and bleak”

“huge gray barracks”

“set in a serene world of meadows and low rolling hills and summer butterflies”

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