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Today after going through Terezín and looking at the way that living conditions were for the many people that had to live there, we went to the town of Ledice which was destroyed by the Nazis because when Reinhardt Hydrich was killed by paratroopers there were rumours that the people of Ledice were helping to hide them out so the Nazis went there and took the 82 kids and killed all of the men and women. They blew up the whole town and made it look like there was nothing there before. As for the 82 kids they were all gassed in a gas chamber and killed by Carbon Minoxide. There was a momument at the town to remember the children.

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Today we visited Terezín, a town formerly used to house Jews before they were sent to Auschwitz. Upon arrival I could not believe what the city once was since it just looked like a small, beautiful town. As Mr. Barmore continued to tell us what went on there and what each building was used for, it was strange to think of what the town once was and what it is now. Seeing the crematorium in person gave me chills. It was horrifying to see the real machines that were used to turn the bodies of the deceased into ashes. After Terezín, we visited the small town of Lidice that was burned to the ground during WWII. We visited the memorial dedicated to the 82 children who perished, which I had seen in many pictures before, but it was much more surreal seeing it in person. The faces of the children were heartbreaking and I could not believe that the open field around me was once a town full of people. Today was definitely the most emotional so far.

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Seeing the memorial for the 82 murdered children of Lidice was chilling and haunting. These children were gassed in Concentration Camps once being separated from their mothers and fathers. Being a young adult, I cannot imagine the confusion and frightened behavior these children must have shown being surrounded by such barbaric officers. This image emphasizes the apathy of the Nazis during the Holocaust which unfortunately led to the decimation of Lidice.

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Walking around Terezin was very interesting and I learned that families were seperated in the Jewish community. The town was a ghetto and controlled by the Nazis, Jews had to be to be separated accourding to their age and gender. Something I found interesting was that kids would play music and other hobbies to pass time during the time they were kept in ghetto.

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Today we visited the ghetto, Terezin. The poor living conditions that The Jews were forced to live in, is something that I could never even imagine having to do. While in the museum, I walked around and read some of the journal entries kept and it described how horrific the death rate and sanitary conditions were. Many times, the dead would have to lay with the living for a few nights until something could be done about it, and diseases ran rampant.

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Today we visited Terezin. We walked around the the city and visited a museum that used to be an area for 12-15 year old boys. In the museum it described the story of those who were forced to live there. The Jewish community was forced to move there and it began to overcrowd. A population of 60,000 lived in a town meant for 6,000. The elderly died quickly and the leaders of the community began to give bigger rations to the young so that they would survive. Families were sent to concentration camps and most people did not survive either the town or the camp. We also met a survivor, Doris, from that town and heard her story.

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Going to Terezin was the most emotional day. We went to the Ghetto and many museums about the terrible conditions Jews had to endure. We saw art, music, literature, and pictures from the people living in Terezin at the time. The streets were very quiet and it gave an even more eerie feeling to the experience. The thing that stood out to me the most was all the art created by kids in the Ghetto and concentration camp. It had a big impact on me because I am a young person and I related to all the things they did like draw pictures and play music. During the debriefing last night I drew this picture and I wanted to post this picture because this is how my thoughts on such an deep, emotional day translated on to a paper. I think that it is more meaningful than a picture because when I saw all the art from the children of Terezin I knew that those were their thoughts as well

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Today we visited a former ghetto, used to house Jews before being shipped off to Auschwitz. The conditions of this camp were hard to imagine and I couldn’t believe how the people survived there. During today we heard stories of people that had done extraordinary things in the camp but, the most influential story was told by a 92 year old survivor of the camp. Her name was Doris and after dinner she explained her terrible time in the camp and how she could have been sent to her death had an SS officer not helped her out.

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Today we visited Terezín the town where Jews where placed before going to the consentration camps. We saw the conditions of the people and I couldn’t believe that they lived that bad and I couldn’t imagine myself in that situation. After we met Doris a Czech survivor who was in Terezín during the Holocaust and she told us she had to keep moving from one place to another and etc..

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During this trip, I try my best to put myself in the affected people’s shoes. I find it difficult every time, because it is just so hard to imagine such hardship and despair. In our visit to Terezin, looking at the barracks, going in the showers, I tried my best to feel what they might have gone through, and I could sort of do it, but all that really came to mind, was just thinking how terrible life was. However, when we visited what used to be Lidice, I felt it was a bit easier to empathize. I still could not fully grasp the whole ordeal because it was such a large scale event that I have never experienced, but just thinking that my two square mile town, and all my neighbors could have been reduced to nothing, made me feel a different way. What was once full of life, was taken away so fast.

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Today in Terezin we went to a museum that displayed life in the ghetto. In the museum you can see how they passed time, how they interacted, and more importantly how they survived. On the wall of the museum the art made in the ghetto was displayed and one photo specifically stuck out to me. The picture of a boy covered in dirt eating and smiling. It showed me how people were able to survive. In the ghetto the most important thing was to keep the youth alive to outlive the Holocaust, so they got special treatment like getting double the rations of the elderly. The child symbolizes the Jews in every ghetto across Europe at the time. Although in a tough situation and treated like dirt they persevered and tried to live as normally as possible, playing games with their neighbors, playing music, going to school, and most importantly continuing to practice their faith.

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Today as we walked the town of Trezin, we toured a museum that displayed numerous different styles of art to represent the life in the ghetto. One piece that specifically stood out to me was the one seen in the picture below. In the drawing it’s shows someone making a film in front of a wall, but little do most know behind the wall was a skeleton. This drawing was used to convey the idea of covering up the truth and lying about what is actually occurring. These included real life aspects but also included details very personal to their life. All the drawings were considered industrial drawings that were used for documentation during this time period. These drawings are a perfect representation of propaganda because it shows how life in the ghetto was not as they made it seem and in actuality it was much worse than anyone could imagine.

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Today in Terezín we walked to several museums and Mr. Barmore told us about the daily life of Jewish people living in the town and in Theresienstadt. One museum in particular displayed some of the incredible drawings and paintings that were created in Terezín by the Jewish people and gave an explanation of what it was like to perform music or a play in that community and how it helped pass the time. In the time spent in Terezín, some wrote music, some taught music, some wrote literature, and some planned and performed in musicals and plays. We also talked about the absurdity of it all—how in this cold, overcrowded town some had it better than others, and yet they were all the same when it came to being transported to concentration camps.