Czech-Terezin

This former military fortress
Early history was founded in the late 18th century by the Habsburg Monarchy and named Theresienstadt after Empress Maria Theresa. By 1940 Germany assigned the Gestapo to adapt Terezín as a ghetto and concentration camp. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, including 15,000 children. Although it was not an extermination camp, about 33,000 died due to the appalling conditions and about 88,000 inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.

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This former military fortress <br />
Early history was founded in the late 18th century by the Habsburg Monarchy and named Theresienstadt after Empress Maria Theresa. By 1940 Germany assigned the Gestapo to adapt Terezín as a ghetto and concentration camp. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, including 15,000 children. Although it was not an extermination camp, about 33,000 died due to the appalling conditions and about 88,000 inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.