Day two - Terezin

Today’s coach trip to Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto was very moving for most of us and I feel my words alone will not convey the emotions felt. I will ask some of the students to add their thoughts and images to this post. Terezin was built in 1780 as a fortress town, but was used in WW2 by the Nazi’s as a holding camp / ghetto for the Czech Jews. Thousands died here or in the death camps they were later transported to such as Auschwitz. We where given a tour of the prison which held political prisoners during that time. We where all shepherded into a tiny cell and told of how the 60 Jewish prisoners were housed there and many died in that space. Most of us found it felt wrong to make photographs in the prison or ghetto.