Holocaust: Theresienstadt – Deception and Reality

Theresienstadt

Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit camp to the death camps in the East for thousands of Czech, German, Austrian and Dutch Jews.


 

This documentary contains disturbing images !!
 



The Jews deported there from 1941 onwards were led to believe it was an ‘end camp’ from where they would not be deported further. The thousands of old and prominent Jews from Germany, Austria and Holland deported there from 1942 onwards were promised a comfortable and peaceful life in the ‘Reich home for the aged’ and hoodwinked into signing over to the S.S. their properties and assets. In reality, they also would be sent off to the death camps in the east.

From 1943, the Nazis developed Theresienstadt into a ‘show camp’ with which they could deceive the outside world as to what was really happening to the Jews of Europe. A large scale ‘beautification’ programme gave the camp a nice looking outer facade. In June 1944, a Danish and International Red Cross delegation allowed itself to be completely deceived when they inspected this fraudulent ‘Jewish Settlement’.

 

Holocaust: Theresienstadt – Deception and Reality

 

Theresienstadt concentration camp, also referred to as Theresienstadt ghetto, was a concentration camp established by the SS during World War II in the garrison city of Terezín, located in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Tens of thousands of people died there, some killed outright and others dying from malnutrition and disease. More than 150,000 other persons (including tens of thousands of children) were held there for months or years, before being sent by rail transports to their deaths at Treblinka and Auschwitz extermination camps in occupied Poland, as well as to smaller camps elsewhere.

The camp was established by a transport of Czech Jews in November 1941. The first German and Austrian Jews arrived in June 1942; Dutch and Danish Jews also were imprisoned at Theresienstadt. About 33,000 people died at Theresienstadt, mostly from malnutrition and disease. More than 88,000 people were held there for months or years before being deported to various extermination camps and other killing sites; the Jewish self-administration’s role in choosing those to be deported has attracted significant controversy. Including 3,500 of the deportees who survived, the total number of survivors was around 23,000.

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