I'm putting my pictures of Terezin in a separate post, because they don't really fit with the rest of Prague. Terezin was a jewish ghetto built in a fortress, with a nazi prison built into the attached small fortress. Terezin was where most of the artists were sent at the beginning of the war, so it is known for it's music (there were several orchestras inside the ghetto), theater, and art. As the war went on, Terezin served as a gateway to deportation--most of the people who started in Terezin ended in a concentration camp or death camp such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, or Treblinka.
The graveyard--many of the graves are only numbered, and there are also mass graves here. The people who are buried here died after the war of typhus.
Entrance to the small fortress prison
"Work will make you free"
A memorial to the suffering of the victims
If people would like more information or pictures, I have them...
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