Terezin

15.01.2012 – Sunday, day 27

Well what an energetic bunch we are today! Hungover and tired from our big night out at Infinity Club last night, where we drank vodka redbull until the wee hours of the morning! Who’s idea was that?! It was a great besides having to put up with all the smoke. People here smoke everywhere. Inside café’s, restaurants, and bars, and since we don’t do that in Australia any more you can really notice it. We are pretty much on sprint patrol to find the non smoking room as soon as we enter a shop. I don’t think the message “smoking kills” has quite got around here yet.

So I guess our quiet mood was well suited to our tour that we booked today, which was a 5 hour trip to a Nazi Concentration Camp. Actually, the first half of the tour was just looking through some museums showing the Jewish history during the Nazi period, which was good but our guide took forever to explain things and she was a little hard to understand. The second half of the tour we walked around the Terezin village which was isolated for Jews before being sent away for extermination… then we had a grand tour of the prison.

The prison was used as a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, and just being there gives you the creeps. It was absolutely horrible the conditions that those poor people had to live in, deprived of human rights, tortured, hung, stoned to death.. I’m not going to go all political and opinionated on the topic but you get the drift. It certainly was a dark era of mankind.

Hopefully tomorrow we will uncover some happier stories in the city.

Cell block A on the right, sick room and showers straight ahead

This room was for 300 prisoners.. there were a dozen more

Memorial gravestone