Overview

Terezin concentration camp and memorial half day tour

Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) was founded in 1780 as a fortress town to the North of Prague. This settlement was intended for a population of 7,000, half of being soldiers.  The Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps. The ghetto was established by the transportation of Czech Jews in November 1941. The first German and Austrian Jews arrived in June 1942. Dutch and Danish Jews came at the beginning in 1943, and prisoners of a wide variety of nationalities were sent to Theresienstadt in the last months of the war.

This former ghetto and concentration camp is a lasting reminder of the Jewish tragedy of World War II. 

Terezin memorial site offers the following points:

A small fortress (with the National cemetery)
Objects of the former ghetto (Ghetto Museum, Magdeburg Barracks, Prayer room and replica of „mansard“, Exhibition Terezin transports, Ceremonial halls, columbarium and a central mortuary, Crematory and Jewish cemetery, Cemetery of Russian soldiers.

Our licensed expert guide will guide you through the many sites of Terezin. Museum of Holocaust, The Secret Synagogue where clandestine services took place during the ghetto period.  The Jewish cemetery, and the crematorium. You can also visit the Small Fortress, a former political prison and Prague Gestapo prison during World War ll.

Terezin Tour program example

All our tours can be customized according to your specific vision.

Pick up at your accommodation

Private transfer to Terezin – about one hour drive

Tour of the Terezin memorial site

Private transfer back to Prague