Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
SIGHTS
HIST
HISTORIC SITE
ORIC SITE
MAIN FORTRESS
(Hlavní pevnost)
The sheer scale of the walls and moats surrounding the Main Fortress
is impossible to fathom - mainly because the town is inside the fortifications. Initially,
you may think the central square looks no different from other Old Town centres.
Wander past the walls en route to the Lesser Fortress, however, and a different picture
emerges.
At the heart of the Main Fortress is the neat grid of streets that makes up the town
of Terezín. There's little to see except the 19th-century Church of the Resurrection,
the former Commandant's office, the neoclassical administrative buildings and the
surrounding grid of houses with their awful secrets. South of the square are the re-
mains of a railway siding, built by prisoners, on which carriage-loads of further pris-
oners arrived - and departed.
MMUSSEUUM
GHETTO MUSEUM
child 170/140Kč, combined with Lesser Fortress 210/160Kč; 9am-6pm Apr-Oct, to 5.30pm
Nov-Mar)
The Ghetto Museum explores the rise of Nazism and life in the Terezín
ghetto. The building once accommodated the camp's 10- to 15-year-old boys; haunt-
ing images painted by them still decorate the walls.
The former
Magdeburg Barracks
(Mag-deburská kasárna), which served as the
seat of the Jewish 'town council', houses an annex to the main museum. Here you can
visit a reconstructed dormitory and see exhibits on the rich cultural life that somehow
flourished against this backdrop of fear.
There is also a small exhibit in the grim
Crematorium
(Krematorium; 10am-6pm
Sun-Fri Apr-Oct, to 4pm Sun-Fri Nov-Mar)
in the
Jewish Cemetery
just off Bohušovická
brána, about 750m south of the main square.
The Ghetto Museum has multilingual self-guide pamphlets and guides (some of
them ghetto survivors) to offer assistance.
HIST
HISTORIC SITE
ORIC SITE
LESSER FORTRESS
