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Theresienstadt concentration camp

Theresienstadt (German) or Terezín (Czech) was the Czech fortress town of Theresienstadt, which was turned into a concentration camp and ghetto during World War II.

Theresienstadt concentration camp was mainly a transit camp for Jews who were usually soon shipped on to Auschwitz-Birkenau or other death camps.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ See: Wikipedia: Theresienstadt Ghetto.