Theresienstadt Concentration camp

by Joel Norman

location

• In Garrison town in Northwestern Czechoslovakia

Who was sent here• Mostly Jews

• Roma people

• Homosexuals

A concentration camp• A concentration camp is a place which a

government uses to keep people who are either against that government or who it thinks are too dangerous to remain free.

Conditions

• hunger• sickness• poor sanitary (i.e shower, bath, etc)

Number of People

• 107, 000 people were left in the concentration camp

Total number of deaths

• The total number of deaths was 35,088.

What people did to survive

• Lots of activities to do for children(drawing, painting,etc)

• housekeeping • a small school• had to wear there own clothes and sometimes

had to get new ones

When it was opened and closed

• began on November 24, 1941and ended May 9, 1945

What happened on the last days of the war

• The prisoners were killed near the end of the war

When it was liberated

• It was liberated in 1945

Films and documentaries• Schindler’s list• Holocaust(TV miniseries)• The last butterfly• War and Remembrance(TV miniseries)• Transport from paradise• A story about a Bad dream• Paradise camp• Prisoner of Paradise • Voices of the children