Terezin

 About an hour and a half drive from Prague is Terezin. It was originally built back in the 1700's as a prison. During the Nazi occupation the Germans turned it into a Jewish Prison where they would hold people until they would move prisoners to concentration camps. Going to these types of places is sobering. It just doesn't seem possible that people could have done such awful things. Although Terezin was not an actual concentration camp, they estimate about 6,000 people died there.

In front of the prison they have buried about 10,000 bodies. The bodies that they found buried inside the prison as well as bodies of victims that had once been in the prison and had then been killed in other concentration camps. 

 Here I am at the opening of a tunnel that lead from Block A to the execution grounds. It was a very long tunnel that was really dark. We walked the entire thing and it was pretty creepy.

 This is the best picture we could get of the inside of the tunnel.

 This is what was waiting at the end of the tunnel. The execution ground, they said that about 600 people were executed here. Many more died of being beaten, tortured, or of sickness inside the prison.

 This swimming pool was interesting. It is right outside the execution ground. We were told that prisoners were forced to dig and build this swimming pool for the families of the guards.

 They had brought soil from each of the concentration camps that prisoners of Terezin were taken too, and had the soil on display.

 One of many rooms where they held hundreds of prisoners at one time.

 This part of the prison is a site where a few prisoners attempted to escape. They were being held in the rooms that can be seen. They were caught and killed in the square in front of the other prisoners.

 This is the home in the middle of the prison where the guard's families lived. 

 One of the graves at the cemetery. Most of the graves had rocks placed on them. We are not sure why, I have been meaning to look up why that is done. 

Although I can't say that we had "Fun" at Terezin, we were both glad that we went. I think that it's important to remember what happened, and have respect for those that were victims.