Terezín Small Fortress Grayeyard Memorial Picture Page

Terezín 'Small Fortress' Cemetery

Terezín (Theresienstadt), in the Czech Republic, was built first as a reception camp for Jews of Bohemia and Moravia and an old-age camp for German prisoners. It later became a transit and concentration camp, with a ghetto and prison facility. The Nazis used the camp to make a propaganda film to fool a visiting Red Cross team about the Nazis' camp system. Many Jewish prisoners who participated in the filming were sent to Auschwitz immediately after for extermination -- typical of the Nazis' deceitful methods to trick prisoners while plotting their mass murder.