Terezín

During the Second World War, the “Main Fortress” on the left bank of the river was regarded as a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazi Germans. The “Small Fortress” on the right bank of Ohře River became a prison of the Gestapo in Prague.

At the time, the Nazis used a special train to transport Jews directly to multiple concentration camps in Poland and other occupied Eastern European countries, such as Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, etc.

Today, a national cultural memorial site, called the Terezin Memorial Hall, has been built in the “Small Fortress”.