ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent

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Terezin: The former WW2 ghetto falling into ruin

BBC News

2021-04-06

150,000 Jews from across Europe were interned in the Terezín – or Theresienstadt – ghetto during WW2. It was a transit camp – where Jews were gathered before being sent eastwards to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Conditions at Terezín were horrific, and some 35,000 died there. But eighty years on, the buildings themselves are falling into ruin.