Theresienstadt

WHEN WAS IT MADE, AND WHERE?

• Czech Republic
• In garrison city of Terezín
• 1780 and 1790 by Austrian emperor Joseph II
• Used as a fort/prison until 1940
• Nazis turned to transit and death camp

HOW MANY PRISIONERS, AND WHAT KIND?

• It had 60,000 at its fullest
• Protectorate Jews
• Others on their way to extermination camps

WHAT WAS ITS JOB?

• It was a transit camp
• It was also a secondary extermination camp

HOW MANY DEATHS, HOW MANY ESCAPES?

• Total deaths: 35,088
• Total escapes: unknown at least 3

WHO WAS IN CHARGE?

• SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
• three officers served as Camp Commandant:
• Siegfried Seidl, Anton Burger, and Karl Rahm

WHEN WAS IT LIBERATED?

• April 6 and April 21, 1945,
• the International Red Cross took over its administration