Terezin the Main Fortress
Terezin - the city, the main fortress, during the Second
World War a concentration camp for Jewish prisoners
I quote from a book published in 1957 - Terezín by Tány Kulišová
Until June 1942, the civilian population also lived in Terezín. However, she was evicted and Terezín became a closed ghetto. Before that, none of the barracks were allowed to go out, only riot service, doctors, nurses, etc., labeled on the sleeve with tape, were allowed to walk the streets. After the establishment of a concentration camp called the Nazi Ghetto, everyone could leave the barracks.
The Nazis tried to make everything seem a "normal" city, whose inhabitants also live a normal life. There was a café open, where substitute coffee was sold, but only those who received the voucher had access to it. There were shops with clothing, staples and groceries, but they didn't get anything to buy, or just trash and junk.
The "ghetto" had its own money, which the workers received as a "reward" for their work, but could not buy anything for it.
A demonstration pavilion with swings and merry-go-rounds was built near the square for children. When some of the foreign "missions" were expected, the children had to take them all day, even when they wept. All this was arranged to fool visitors.
Life in a concentration camp was hell in the true sense. People were crowded in soils, bunk beds, eternal fear of transports, in an environment where the least demand for hygiene was an impossible dream. He was hungry. The food was inadequate. Doses approximately the same as in the Small Fortress. Somewhat better were those who could work. Older people lived the worst.
Temporary rescue was to some extent a disease. So the patients got to the infirmary or the hospital where the doctors' offices were transported. Doctors, including many associate professors and professors, could practice, nurses' staffs day and night. Thanks to these dedicated workers, special care was also given to children, especially toddlers. If her mother gave birth here, she could be with the child in special shelters within six months, after which the child was given to the orphanage.
In 1943 everything changed. If a woman became pregnant, she had to apply for gynecology, where the fetus was artificially removed. Later, the SSmans even threatened that every woman on whom this procedure was performed would immediately go to transport. They actually did that punishment.
On the edge of the ghetto, a villa was reconstructed, with 34 children, convalescent after TB. The children had medical treatment, looked after them carefully, and dr. Podvinec. But even this villa was an example for foreign “commissions” as the Nazis take care of sick Jewish children. It didn't matter that after leaving the "commission" the children were placed in transports and the children's lives ended in the Auschwitz gas chamber.
The greatest dedication the residents of the so-called "ghetto" provided with each other could not prevent the terrible fate of the imprisoned people. They were transported to extermination camps.
In July 1943, 1200 children from Ukraine arrived in the Terezín ghetto. No one was allowed to approach the transport. The children were brought in a miserable condition. There was a wooden barrack on the edge of the "ghetto" for which no one under the death penalty had access. Staff with doctors who have not met any of the other ghetto residents have been identified and selected. All he knew was that these nurses and doctors were dedicated to the children. Children had surely had terrible experiences. When they came to Terezin to go under the showers to defend themselves, they were afraid of gas. They stayed in the "ghetto" for several months, then they were transported with the attending staff to Auschwitz, where they were murdered ………
In the autumn of 1942, the transport of old Czech people - Jewish prisoners of 1000 and transport also went to 1000 people of different nationalities - both to Treblinka.
At the end of 1944, 11 transports left for the so-called "labor camps". That's what they called it - in fact they all went to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Of these, one transport was made up of doctors, in other transports the orphans were Dutch, German, Austrian.
It was also executed in the ghetto. The first executions were in January and February 1942. Mostly young people were executed for minor offenses. For example, a 16-year-old boy wrote secretly to his mother - he was executed for it. The man rode without permission for the drug to his sick wife - ended up on the gallows, etc. For the alert, 17 people were hanged, the execution took place outside the city. A crew had to be present in the ghetto to lead the so-called "self-government" and counted 35 people. Later, the executions in the Terezín ghetto did not take place, and those who were guilty in the SSman's eyes were sent to the Small Fortress for liquidation or went to transport, ie, a certain death in the gas chambers.
I quote from a book published in 1957 - Terezín by Tány Kulišová
Until June 1942, the civilian population also lived in Terezín. However, she was evicted and Terezín became a closed ghetto. Before that, none of the barracks were allowed to go out, only riot service, doctors, nurses, etc., labeled on the sleeve with tape, were allowed to walk the streets. After the establishment of a concentration camp called the Nazi Ghetto, everyone could leave the barracks.
The Nazis tried to make everything seem a "normal" city, whose inhabitants also live a normal life. There was a café open, where substitute coffee was sold, but only those who received the voucher had access to it. There were shops with clothing, staples and groceries, but they didn't get anything to buy, or just trash and junk.
The "ghetto" had its own money, which the workers received as a "reward" for their work, but could not buy anything for it.
A demonstration pavilion with swings and merry-go-rounds was built near the square for children. When some of the foreign "missions" were expected, the children had to take them all day, even when they wept. All this was arranged to fool visitors.
Life in a concentration camp was hell in the true sense. People were crowded in soils, bunk beds, eternal fear of transports, in an environment where the least demand for hygiene was an impossible dream. He was hungry. The food was inadequate. Doses approximately the same as in the Small Fortress. Somewhat better were those who could work. Older people lived the worst.
Temporary rescue was to some extent a disease. So the patients got to the infirmary or the hospital where the doctors' offices were transported. Doctors, including many associate professors and professors, could practice, nurses' staffs day and night. Thanks to these dedicated workers, special care was also given to children, especially toddlers. If her mother gave birth here, she could be with the child in special shelters within six months, after which the child was given to the orphanage.
In 1943 everything changed. If a woman became pregnant, she had to apply for gynecology, where the fetus was artificially removed. Later, the SSmans even threatened that every woman on whom this procedure was performed would immediately go to transport. They actually did that punishment.
On the edge of the ghetto, a villa was reconstructed, with 34 children, convalescent after TB. The children had medical treatment, looked after them carefully, and dr. Podvinec. But even this villa was an example for foreign “commissions” as the Nazis take care of sick Jewish children. It didn't matter that after leaving the "commission" the children were placed in transports and the children's lives ended in the Auschwitz gas chamber.
The greatest dedication the residents of the so-called "ghetto" provided with each other could not prevent the terrible fate of the imprisoned people. They were transported to extermination camps.
In July 1943, 1200 children from Ukraine arrived in the Terezín ghetto. No one was allowed to approach the transport. The children were brought in a miserable condition. There was a wooden barrack on the edge of the "ghetto" for which no one under the death penalty had access. Staff with doctors who have not met any of the other ghetto residents have been identified and selected. All he knew was that these nurses and doctors were dedicated to the children. Children had surely had terrible experiences. When they came to Terezin to go under the showers to defend themselves, they were afraid of gas. They stayed in the "ghetto" for several months, then they were transported with the attending staff to Auschwitz, where they were murdered ………
In the autumn of 1942, the transport of old Czech people - Jewish prisoners of 1000 and transport also went to 1000 people of different nationalities - both to Treblinka.
At the end of 1944, 11 transports left for the so-called "labor camps". That's what they called it - in fact they all went to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Of these, one transport was made up of doctors, in other transports the orphans were Dutch, German, Austrian.
It was also executed in the ghetto. The first executions were in January and February 1942. Mostly young people were executed for minor offenses. For example, a 16-year-old boy wrote secretly to his mother - he was executed for it. The man rode without permission for the drug to his sick wife - ended up on the gallows, etc. For the alert, 17 people were hanged, the execution took place outside the city. A crew had to be present in the ghetto to lead the so-called "self-government" and counted 35 people. Later, the executions in the Terezín ghetto did not take place, and those who were guilty in the SSman's eyes were sent to the Small Fortress for liquidation or went to transport, ie, a certain death in the gas chambers.
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