Theresienstadt

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A bed, wash bowl, utensils, and clothes lines were in a small room just like this.	Children played on a playground to trick the Red Cross that they were treated right.	These small courtyards would hold hundreds of prisoners.

Many prisoners had to walk to Theresienstadt with their luggage. Many also had to walk to trains taking them East.	Many entered through this entrance to Theresienstadt and hardly any left for freedom.	Nazi propagandists used this library, built in Theresienstadt, to give false images that the Jews were treated right with having rights to books.

This is the Main street of Theresienstadt that many spent day and night cleaning by hand.	Nazis made paper money that replaced real money that Jews were forbidden to use.	Young Josef Novak, a Theresienstadt boy prisoner, drew this while he stayed there. He shows residents being hung, which was quite normal.

This is a picture of the Ohre River, clouded by the ashes of those cremated prisoners.	This is a picture of Rabbi Leo Baeck. A survivor of Theresienstadt.	This is a closer picture of the entrance to Theresienstadt. Notice the Nazi ruse, "Work makes one free."

A soccer game was played to deceive the Red Cross that Theresienstadt was wonderful.	This is a birds eye view drawing of Terezin.	Prisoners were tortured in underground bunkers in the old fortress.

These cattle car trains brought in the prisoners. These trains also took many East.	Many were thrown into tunnels like this to stay there.	This is a picture of Theresienstadt.

Women stayed separate in bunkers like this.