Travel Reference
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to Terezín. This was too public a display for the Nazis, who didn't
want locals to observe the transports and become suspicious. So
the Jewish prisoners at Terezín were forced to construct a railway
line that led right to Terezín...and back out again to Auschwitz.
As you exit the walled-in area, on the right you will find
Jewish and Christian ceremonial halls and the main morgue, while
on the left is a
Columbarium,
or storage space for funerary urns.
The Germans originally promised that the urns would be properly
reburied after the war, but in 1945, to erase evidence, the ashes of
Terezín victims (stored mainly in cardboard boxes) were dumped
into the New Ohře River.
Continue along the road, then turn left past bucolic vegetable
plots and fruit gardens to reach the
S
Crematorium, Jewish
Cemetery,
and a
Memorial to Soviet Soldiers.
Days before
Terezín was liberated (on May 8, 1945), an epidemic of typhus
spread through the camp. In the weeks after the war ended, scores
of Soviet soldiers and medical workers who tried to contain the
epidemic died, along with hundreds of former prisoners.
Our tour ends here. As you ponder Terezín, remember the
message of all such memorials: Never again.
tranSportation ConneCtionS
Getting to Terezín:
The camp is about 40 miles northwest of
Prague. It's most convenient to visit Terezín by bus (described
next) or tour bus (for details, see page 49).
Buses leave almost hourly from stands 16 and 17 at Prague's
Florenc station (at the intersection of Metro lines B and C), and
arrive in Terezín about one hour later at the public bus stop on the
main square, around the corner from the Museum of the Ghetto.
For schedules see www.idos.cz; you want “Terezín LT.” Make sure
to check the return departures, too. On the trip back to Prague,
the bus drops you off at the Holešovice train station, on Metro
line C.
If the return bus doesn't fit your schedule, consider taking a
taxi from Terezin to the Bohušovice station (5 min from Terezín,
trains to Prague depart nearly hourly, 1-1.5 hrs). There is no taxi
service from Bohuošovic
to
Terezin, making the train a good option
only for the return journey. If you're continuing from Terezín to
Dresden, Germany, take the train from Bohušovice to Ústí, then
switch to the international express train.
