Thereseinstadt

Terezin and the Thereseinstadt Concentration Camp was a very humbling and powerful experience.  It was my first visit to a concentration camp and it was overwhelming to step in the same footsteps as the thousands of Jews who suffered and died in the same spot.  The site was more of a transfer station for those going to Auschwitz and the other death camps.  It was interesting because at times you could feel the suffering that occurred in the camp.  Another interesting aspect of the camp is that the Austro-Hungarian Empire built the camp originally as a fortress and then used it as a prison.  The camp was the site of the imprisonment and death of Franz Ferdinand's assassin who nearly single handedly began World War I.  The camp was interesting and one of the best days on the trip so far!