Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Sights
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Main Square
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Museum of the Ghe
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Magdeburg Barracks
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Dry Moat
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Small Fortress Entry Gate
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Model Cells, Washroom &
Gavrilo Princip's Cell
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Art Museum
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Execution Ground & Mass Grave
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Hidden Synagogue
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Railway Tracks & Columbarium
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Crematorium, Jewish Cemetery
& Soviet Memorial
Other
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Bus To/From Prague
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Cafeteria
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Pa rkhotel Restaurant
Walk around the corner to the
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Museum of the Ghetto,
where you buy the Terezín combo-ticket (note show times for
movies). You'll find two floors of exhibits about the development
of the Nazi's “Final Solution” and a theater showing four excellent
films. One film documents the history of the ghetto, and two focus
on children's art in the camp. The fourth is made up of clips from
Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt
(The Führer Gives a City to
the Jews)
by Kurt Gerron. Gerron, a Berlin Jew, was a 1920s movie
star who appeared with Marlene Dietrich in
Blue Angel
. Deported
to Terezín, Gerron in 1944 was asked by the Nazis to produce a
propaganda film. Although in the resulting film, healthy (i.e.,
recently arrived) “Jewish settlers” are seen in Terezín happily view-
ing concerts, playing soccer, and sewing in their rooms, an un-
mistakable, deadly desperation radiates from their pallid faces. The
