March 6th – 31st, 2014 – foyer of the cinema, Small Fortress Terezín

ceremonial opening of the exhibition will take place on March 6th, 2014 at 2 P.M.

The largest complex of Nazi extermination camps was built during the Second World War at Auschwitz in Upper Silesia (Poland). One component comprised the Auschwitz II – Birkenau camp, which became infamous as the largest of the extermination camps, and where some 1.4 million people (of whom 1.1 million were Jews) were put to death. This was the destination for transports from the Terezín Ghetto between October 1942 and October 1944. Between September 1943 and May 1944 the Terezín prisoners were house in the “family camp”, which had been prepared for propaganda purposes. Ultimately its purpose came to nothing, and the majority of the prisoners housed there died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. This exhibition looks in particular at the fate of prisoners from the transports that arrived at Auschwitz from Terezín in September 1943, and who were put to death on the night of March 8th-9th 1944. Their execution was the largest mass murder of Czechoslovak citizens to take place during the years of the Nazi Occupation.

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