Terezín

Theresienstadt: What did it do to the Jewish Children? As of October 1941, the concentration camp Terezin became a Jewish ghetto, but life never got any easier for the Jews. In fact, more sprung up. Children were suffering just as much as the adults. But small children can’t work. They were killed. To get away from death, older children had to work and stay as strong as they could until they die of exhaustion. Children are very strong. They are always coming up with new ideas, while keeping the old information. Jewish children in Terezin Concentration Camp suffered through starvation, labor, suffocation, cruelty and more; yet even then, they mainly held perseverance within the thought that things can and will get better and that giving…

Terezin The only Camp that Jews wouldn't want to go was Terezin,the place where Jews get Transported and die of starvation.On the 1900s Terezin was built.Terezin existed in November 24,1941 through May 9,1945.It was known as a Transportation Camp,to transport Jews to a killing center.In 1942,Germans transported Jews to extermination camps to be murdered.Nazi German's built a crematorium to store 200 body's each day.This camp was considered to be one of the prison camps to have…

Eva Ginzova, born February 21st of 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, kept a diary from June 24th, 1944 till May 14th, 1945 while she resided in the Terezin Ghetto. Despite the horrible, atrocious conditions of the ghetto, Eva was considered lucky because she was there for less than year and she was a child. Jewish children in the ghetto received protection from the elders who tried to shelter them from the ghetto and war as well as provide secret schooling. Eva was born to a mother who was raised…

THERESIENSTADT ( Terezin ) On November 24 , 1941 the Nazis established a ghetto in Theresienstadt. Many Jews felt happy about this new concentration camp. They felt like this because the Germans told them it was a safe place. By 1942 several thousands of Jews were transported to Theresienstadt. Little did they know that they were in danger. Terezin's most tragic chapter came during WWII ( 1939-1945 ). In 1940 Prague's Gestapo installed…

Terezín existed long before it became a Nazi work camp with a Gestapo prison during World War II. It was built from 1780 to 1790. The camp was liberated in March 8 1945. It was named by Emperor Joseph II, after his mother. During World War II it served as a concentration camp. Terezín was a Gestapo prison from 1941 to 1945. Terezín concentration camp is more than 65 years old. Today terezín is located in Czech Republic. Before World War II the population was 5,000 Jews .At the height…

The other day we watched a documentary called " Defiant Requiem" by Maestro Sidlin in one of my classes. To be honest with you this movie reminded me a bit of that movie "The Pianist". I suppose they are almost alike, same time period, same war, same victims. This movie tells the story of the prisoners of the concentration camp Terezin. Terezin is in the Czech Republic and was considered the holding center of the camps. Prisoners went to Terezin before they were sent to death camps…

This camp [Terezin] was a musically oriented camp, using the music they played to manipulate, and morph the minds of the prisoners ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). “‘There’s been much written about how the Nazis used art and culture in Terezin in order to present a different picture than what was really happening,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). Hitler’s entire theme for his regime was all based around the music and art that flooded the culture of his rule ("Music of the Holocaust"). “The Nazis gave Terezin…

out of Poland, and Leo decided to join them, but in 1942 the gestapo became aware of this, so they arrested him. He was released, but that also meant that he was once more in danger of being selected for transport. On October 1st, 1942 Leo, his sister, his wife Erna, and her parents arrived at Terezin, otherwise known as Theresienstadt. Terezin was where Leo would make his most famous art. Leo worked alongside Ferdinand Bloch, Otto Ungar and Bedrich Fritta, who, all like him, were artists.…

about how situations were but, the film could most likely be dramatized by the director to make some big buck by toying with emotions because the reel shows the individual to be so hopeful and passionate about music. The documentary is about Alice Herz-Sommer is the oldest known pianist and Holocaust survivor, who passed away at age 110 last year in 2014. When this was being made she said, "When I go with this (she points to her walker) I am an invalid, ' 'The film talks about her background…

About the Author: Hello, I am a reporter from Germany that cares very much about our world’s history. I am 38 years old, and I am very intrigued about the events that have happened in our past. I am a German woman, whose ancestors were apart of the terrible holocaust. I want to make sure everyone knows how grateful we should be, knowing that we don’t have to go through the same tough times that many of our ancestors did. We should all try to make a positive impact on this world, making sure…