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Avoid the stale sandwiches in the Museum of the Ghetto's dingy
basement cafeteria, where most tour guides inexplicably shove
their clients. The Small Fortress has a cafeteria.
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Self-Guided Tour:
A visit to Terezín: Terezín town and
the Small Fortress, a long half-mile to the east across the river. The
bus from Prague drops you off at Terezín town's spacious
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main
square
(Náměstí Československé Armády). Picture the giant cir-
cus tent and barbed wire fence that stood on this square for two
years during the war. Inside, Jewish workers boxed special motors
for German vehicles being used on the frigid Soviet front. As part
of year-long preparations for the famous Red Cross visit (which
lasted all of six hours on June 23, 1944), the tent and fence were
replaced by flower beds (which you still see on the square today)
and a pavilion for outdoor music performances.
