London to Auschwitz, Day 20: Rest Day in Prague to visit Terezin Concentration Camp
Less than an hour drive from Prague was a concentration camp for the Jews and other prisoners of the Nazi regime. The Nazi’s expelled the 7,000 Czechs from the town in November 1941 and took over the fortress that was built in 1780 to use as a prison. They also created another larger ghetto in the main town for the Jews to be sent. Gavrilo Princip, the one who assassinated Franz Ferdinand in 1914 kicking off WWI was a prisoner…