Jewish cemetery ghetto and concentration camp Theresienstadt - Terezín

The Jewish cemetery, located outside the fortress walls of Terezín, was created shortly after the establishment of the ghetto and concentration camp on a site where Soviet soldiers had been buried after the First World War. Initially, the deceased Jews were buried in individual graves before the prisoners had to dig mass graves due to the high mortality rate caused by the terrible camp conditions.

In 1942, the SS ordered the prisoners to build a crematorium on the cemetery grounds, where the bodies of around 30,000 victims from the ghetto, the Small Fortress and the nearby Leitmeritz concentration camp were cremated.