Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Terezin Small Fortress
The Terezin Small Fortress and Concentration Camp tour was an emotional and interesting tour. I really enjoyed learning about the history of the fortress before it was used as a concentration camp under the Nazis. It was amazing to see the tunnels and canals that the Austrian's had built which was a large construction project during it's time. Then to see the additions that the Nazis added was emotional and intense; as they added barracks to house Jews. We also saw the gallows and execution site that the Nazis used to kill Jews that attempted escape. It was amazing to see that the camp and fortress were still under good condition after centuries of use and many floods.
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I was surprised how well this camp and the tunnels held up after having many floods. It was neat to see the different water level stains on the buildings since they were so far apart.
ReplyDeleteClearly things were built better back then. I agree, though. It must have taken a lot of work to clean up after that too.
ReplyDeleteI liked that we got to go through the tunnels and it was surprising just how well of shape they were still in after all these years and the two major floods in the towns recent history that our tour guide was telling us about.
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