Private Terezin Small-Group Tour from Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
Trip Type: Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration: 7 hours
Take a private small-group 6 to 7-hour tour from Prague to Terezín (Theresienstadt), which was built in the 1790s by Habsburg Emperor Joseph II as a fortress to guard the Northern approaches to the Bohemian heartlands. Learn about the small fortress, which forms part of the Terezín fortification system, became famous during WW II as a prison and place of punishment for both military and political prisoners. As a concentration, transit camp and a ghetto, it was used for Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and later also from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Slovakia.
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Take a private small-group 6 to 7-hour tour from Prague to Terezín (Theresienstadt), which was built in the 1790s by Habsburg Emperor Joseph II as a fortress to guard the Northern approaches to the Bohemian heartlands. Learn about the small fortress, which forms part of the Terezín fortification system, became famous during WW II as a prison and place of punishment for both military and political prisoners. As a concentration, transit camp and a ghetto, it was used for Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and later also from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Slovakia.Your tour will start at your hotel in Prague from where you will be driven to Terezin for about 45 minutes. During this tour you will learn about former Jewish Ghetto in the Terezin Big Fortress such as the Ghetto Museum, SS Camp Headquarters, Ghetto Guards Station, the Seat of the Council of Elders, Jewish Dormitories, railway tracks, The Crematorium, The Columbarium and the Jewish Prayer Room.
See many artifacts in the museum of Terezin Concentration Camp, such as a collage of drawings by children imprisoned at the camp and the propaganda movie, which was produced by the Nazis to present Terezin as a "gift" to the Jews from Hitler.
Also enter the gate of the Terezin concentration camp Small Fortress, a former Gestapo prison. Walk through and learn about the prison barracks, the execution grounds where firing squads murdered innocent people, the workshops, the dark solitary confinement cells and a cemetery that was built after the war. At the end of your Terezin visit you will be taken back to your hotel in Prague.
See many artifacts in the museum of Terezin Concentration Camp, such as a collage of drawings by children imprisoned at the camp and the propaganda movie, which was produced by the Nazis to present Terezin as a "gift" to the Jews from Hitler.
Also enter the gate of the Terezin concentration camp Small Fortress, a former Gestapo prison. Walk through and learn about the prison barracks, the execution grounds where firing squads murdered innocent people, the workshops, the dark solitary confinement cells and a cemetery that was built after the war. At the end of your Terezin visit you will be taken back to your hotel in Prague.
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