Former Ghetto Theresienstadt & The Small Fortress

Tour Overview

How could one town be simultaneously a sleepy little community as well as a part of the Holocaust? How could it be a deadly transit camp as well as a propaganda site masquerading as a perfect community?

Explore the contradictory sides of a unique part of the Holocaust, the former Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Sites visited

• Small Fortress
• Former Ghetto
• Ghetto Museum
• Magdeburg Barracks
• Hidden Synagogue
• Former Crematorium and Cemetery

Topics covered

• Theresienstadt in Nazi propaganda
• Actual life in the Ghetto
• The Small Fortress Gestapo prison
• Musical life of the Ghetto
• Theresienstadt as part of the Holocaust
• The perpetrators and their fate
• The Heydrich Assassination