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Czech-Terezin

The Big Fortress, the Ghetto's Museum opened in 1991 in the building of the former Terezín School. Formerly a school and during the Nazi years a boys’ home, the building houses displays with original works of art from the ghetto and a detailed explanation of the way Terezín was used in 1944 to fool the International Red Cross into condoning the nazi’s treatment of the Jews. 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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Czech Republic, Jewish roots
The Big Fortress, the Ghetto's Museum opened in 1991 in the building of the former Terezín School. Formerly a school and during the Nazi years a boys’ home, the building houses displays with original works of art from the ghetto and a detailed explanation of the way Terezín was used in 1944 to fool the International Red Cross into condoning the nazi’s treatment of the Jews. 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.