Terezin Concentration Camp - Regular Tour Terezin Private Tour
ID: GYG413724-750418
Category:
Country: Czechia
Duration:
06:00 hours
Description
Visit Concentration Camp in Terezin. It was completely different psychologically and physically from any of the 632 other camps. The tour is focused on Czech-Jewish history, WWII & the Holocaust.
Terezin was a concentration camp about 1 hour north of Prague in the Czech Republic during World War II. By 1940 Nazi Germany had assigned the Gestapo to turn Terezín into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. It held primarily Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as tens of thousands of Jews deported chiefly from Germany and Austria, as well as hundreds from the Netherlands and Denmark. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, including 15,000 children. Later, most of these people have been sent by rail transports to their deaths at Treblinka and Auschwitz extermination camps in occupied Poland.
This visit is essential to understanding the complicated history that unfolded here in 1941, when the region’s Jewish communities were deported through Terezin to death camps. It is also extremely relevant to understand what happened to so many innocent people through actual artifacts, children’s drawings, poetry, and other rare items which survived their owners to speak so eloquently for them. Terezin was completely different psychologically and physically from any of the 632 other camps.
Highlights
- Focused on Czech-Jewish history
- Visit the Small Fortress, a former political and Gestapo prison during World War ll, and its Museum
- Explore the Ghetto Museum, the former Magdeburg Barracks, the hidden Synagogue, the Jewish cemetery and the crematorium
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Cafe Golem
Information Centre in the Jewish Quarter
Opposite the town hall in the Jewish Quarter
Next to the shop "Antik Maiselova"
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 48 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 48 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
