{"id":55,"date":"2008-04-19T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-04-19T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T19:31:44","slug":"terezin-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/terezin-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Terezin, Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Terezin<\/strong>\u00a0
\nWe spent the day Friday in Terezin. During WWII, the entire town of Terezin was converted into a ghetto by the Nazis\u00a0for Jews from all over Europe.\u00a0 The town was built as a garrison and prison in the 1780s,\u00a0making it a pretty ghastly town\u00a0with it’s battlements and\u00a0fortifications to begin with.\u00a0\u00a0Prior to it falling under Nazi control, the town housed around 3,500 people.\u00a0 At it’s peak, there were over 155,000 people packed into the town, leaving roughly about 1.5sq\/m of living space per person in 1942.\u00a0 At that time, roughly 105,000 of those were children.\u00a0\u00a0The town was mainly used as a transfer station for Jews on their way to much worse places (Auschwitz, for example).\u00a0 Only about 3,000 of the people who passed through Terezin survived the war.<\/p>\n

We toured a museum which had some amazing artwork created by the Jews who were held captive there.\u00a0 The most\u00a0heart-wrenching were the pictures created by the children who were encamped in Terezin.\u00a0\u00a0Surprisingly enough, there was a pretty vibrant music\u00a0and art culture which\u00a0sprung from Terezin and survived past the end of the war.\u00a0\u00a0There is also a crematorium which was used to dispose of the massive number of people who died\u00a0in the camp. Understandably, I didn’t take a\u00a0lot of pictures.<\/p>\n

Last Day in Prague
\n<\/strong>Today was our last day in Prague.\u00a0\u00a0It wasn’t a pretty day, but we did get to wander through various parts of the city that we hadn’t seen.\u00a0 We found\u00a0our way\u00a0up to the\u00a0Effle tower replica, which is constructed at the same\u00a0hight as the the original in Paris.\u00a0 Honestly, it’s quite ugly, but the view of the city was\u00a0great!\u00a0 We also\u00a0got to spend the afternoon in the Cafe\u00a0Louvre, which is somewhat well known because\u00a0Franz Kafka used to frequent it.\u00a0\u00a0It was beautiful and the hot\u00a0chocolate was amazing<\/em>.\u00a0 It is\u00a0hard to describe what it is\u00a0like just wondering the streets, just enjoying being in\u00a0its\u00a0presence. Today was one of the best days we’ve had yet.\u00a0 I think that was just because I got to spend time with my friends, taking in a much of this beautiful city before we have to leave tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Pictures
\n<\/strong>The random pictures below are just\u00a0a few that I’ve taken toward the end of this week that I hadn’t posted yet. More will follow via Picasa when I get home.<\/p>\n

\"Overlooking<\/a>\"Hot<\/a>\"Double<\/a>\"Old<\/a>\"Bone<\/a>\"Kutna<\/a>\"Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terezin\u00a0 We spent the day Friday in Terezin. During WWII, the entire town of Terezin was converted into a ghetto by the Nazis\u00a0for Jews from all over Europe.\u00a0 The town was built as a garrison and prison in the 1780s,\u00a0making it a pretty ghastly town\u00a0with it’s battlements and\u00a0fortifications to begin with.\u00a0\u00a0Prior to it falling under … Continue reading Terezin, Prague<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,27],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-prague","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}