Although the name
Terezin does not mean much on its own, it takes on a form that makes people ashamed of their humanity with its image that has witnessed history and combined with their experiences.
18 The camp, which was built towards the end of the th century in order to better protect and guard the area where it was founded, was later used as a prison.. In 1940, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by Hitler, just like other places in the region, Terezin began to spend those bad days as a concentration camp.. II. The camp, which hosted 32 thousand prisoners during the whole of World War II, was the grave of 8 thousand people at the same time.. No one cared that the epidemic typhoid was spreading in the camp, and the Nazis left the infected to their own devices.. Volunteer health workers supported the survivors after the soldiers and guards escaped after the war.
It is impossible not to come to the Czech Republic and see this historical site. We embark on the approximately one hour journey from Prague with the cold. It’s rainy, it’s uncomfortably cold. The bus parks in the large car park in front of the camp. We enter the long narrow road in front of the labor camp with the light rain.. On the right, Christian and Jewish cemeteries, spread over as wide as possible, greet us all.. This grave, which brings the massacre to our minds, bothers us all.
When we pay at the entrance, the box office clerk, who immediately understands that we are Turkish, hands us a brochure in Turkish.. We set out to tour the camp on narrow roads that become muddy with the effect of rain.. Since they have left everything as it is, its effect is more striking on us.. We enter the prisons where the prisoners stay. Intense musty smell, filth and the appearance of desolation are disturbing. Rotten walls, steep wet roofs, small windows, stuffiness and depressing environment. The opacity of colors and the thought of the past bother us.
The virtual checkers and chess planes drawn by the prisoners on the wide wooden tables remind us how time passed in those days.. The tiny, one-person wards they cram into troublemakers do not leave a chance to live so small that one cannot breathe, with their disgustingly filthy toilets. original items on display. The photographs of people who have turned into skin and bones are enough to tell how the captives, who were given chickpea coffee and a slice of bread for breakfast, became this way.. Working for hours in heavy conditions and serving the Germans led to the deaths of many of them young.
Modern-looking buildings built next to the camp to be shown to the Red Cross officials were only opened for show when the authorities were inspected.
Large. The phrase “arbeit macht frei” written on the wall in large fonts means “Work Makes Free”.. The intent was to create the impression that these people were in a modern labor camp.. Most of those who were brought here thought that they came to the labor camp.
The clothes collected once a month in the large disinfection rooms were disinfected with medicated water spraying from the top, and then the captives were dressed wet.. In some rooms we come across large pipes that will give gas. When the population of the prisoners gathered in these rooms increased, deaths were carried out with the gas given, briefly and quickly.. While those who want to live one more breath try to stay on top of the others, it was watched with laughter that the prisoners tried to rise above each other.. Many captives were used as guinea pigs by doctors unethically, by dissecting their internal organs and almost every part of their body for medical examination. The wide plain just behind it has been recorded as the scene of the execution of the prisoners to be executed.. While those who are going to die pass this short tunnel thinking about their “long and long” lives, the light of the tunnel tells the way to their death.
The crematorium prepared for death by burning as well as executions or gassing still allows us to live those days.. In order to better understand the amount of ash remaining from a human body in the crematorium, which is being museumized, the ashes of several people are exhibited side by side.. It is alleged that lampshades and small souvenirs were made of human skin in this camp.
At least 100 prisoners were staying on wooden bunk beds in the narrow wards.. Even if it doesn’t seem very possible to sleep, those who survived after a long wait are very lucky.. II. There were those who attempted to escape from the camp during World War II.. While only three people in total were able to escape by escaping, all those who attempted to escape were hanged on the high facade of the courtyard where the prisoner wards were opened, as an example.. Today, the names of the countries that express world peace and contribute to peace are written on the exemplary front.. Be sure, you will have many ideas about the meaning of being a “human” at the camp.
