24. 11. 1941 Calendary

24.11.1941 The first transport of Jews to Terezín left

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The first transport to Terezín arrived on 24 November 1941. The final solution was to be the liquidation of the Jews in the extermination concentration camps. Thewhole affair would be considerably accelerated by the accession of Heydrich as Reich Protector. In the

first transport to Terezín, 342 young men left to prepare the environment for the next transports. However, only a week later, regular transports of entire families began to arrive at Terezín.

"Soon after the first construction team, transports consisting of entire families began to arrive at Terezín from Prague and Brno. By the end of 1941, 7,350 prisoners had already been interned there. In the first half of 1942, 25,862 people were transported here," says the publication "Touches: Jews in the History of the Jihlava Region".

It soon became clear that the incoming transports to Terezín were much more numerous than those sent away from there. This resulted in the capacity of Terezín soon reaching 50,000 people, which began to have fatal effects on the accommodationIt took some time for life in the Terezín ghetto to stabilise. As an older population was admitted, the death rate of prisoners automatically increased. At first the dead were buried in mass graves, from September 1942 in a newly built crematorium," writes Vladimír Liška in his book Horrific Events II. Lice's account of the terrible events of World War II in the Czech lands.

The Terezín Concentration Camp was actually a collective term for the Nazi repressive facilities set up behind the fortress walls and ramparts of Terezín during World War II. From a formal point of view, it was not a concentration camp, but a Gestapo prison and a Jewish ghetto.This assembly and transit camp was intended first for Jews from the then Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and later also from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Slovakia. Today it houses the Terezín Memorial, a cultural and educational centre.

Terezín was built between 1780 and 1790 as a fortress guarding the northern approaches to the Bohemian hinterland. In 1782 it was granted the status of a town whose life was closely linked to the military garrison. The small fortress, which formed part of the Terezín fortress system, was famous during the Habsburg Monarchy as a prison and punishment centre for military and political prisoners. The most tragic period in the town's history is the years of World War II.

Many (87,000 prisoners) were deported onwards, thousands died in Terezín (33,000 prisoners), tens of thousands were executed and tortured in other camps. In May 1945, 8,521 people were rescued and liberated by the Red Army.

Sources:
Martina Sudová, Judaism in the Vltavotyn Region
Touching: Jews in the History of the Jihlava Region: Proceedings of the Exhibition
Fred Glueckstein and Mimi Glueckstein, Mimi from Nový Bohumín, Czechoslovakia: A Young Woman Who Survived the Holocaust ...

Vladimír Liška, The Horrific Events of World War II in the Czech Lands.
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