Day Trip to Terezín memorial

A full-day trip to the town and memorial of Terezín begins with pick-up at your chosen address in Prague and its surroundings by a spacious and air-conditioned car with a friendly and fluent English-speaking driver. The journey takes approximately 1 hour, during which you will see beautiful views of the local countryside and small villages that you will pass along the way. You can learn a lot about Czech history, life, and facts from the locally-based driver. Upon arrival, the driver will explain where to go, what not to miss, recommend good places to eat (in case we don't have a private guide), and arrange a meeting point for the return trip.

The Terezín memorial is actually a small fortress town, and visiting all the historical sites can easily take up the whole day. We recommend booking a guide who can optimize your day according to your wishes. Otherwise, it is advisable to prepare your own plan of places to visit, including an approximate timetable. The fortress is divided by the Ohře River into Small and Big, which are approximately 1.5 km apart. The driver will take you to the information center where you can buy tickets that include admission to all the sites in the memorial. Full ticket price is 280czk. You should definitely visit the Small Fortress and some of the museums in the Terezín ghetto, which can all be comfortably seen in about 4 hours. You can easily extend your visit time. There are shops, restaurants, and cafes in the town where you can refresh during the day.

Afterwards, you will meet with your driver and head back home.

Served as a prison of the Prague Gestapo for the opponents of Nazi regime in 1940 - 1945. Included the guards offices and prison cells with partly former facility, showers, sick room, hospital, execution place. Part of the route is 500 m long corridor as the exposition of former fortification. The corridor wasn´t use during WWII.

The Ghetto museum was opened in the former town school in 1991. Within the WWII the home (heim L417) for Jewish boys (10 - 15 years old) was here.

Permanent exhibition: Memorial hall of children and Terezín in the Final Solution, 1941-1945.

The prayer room was used for worshipping during the existence of the ghetto.

Replica of the attic - there were small rooms in the attics of residential and farm buildings in Terezin converted into emergency housings of a minimum size and providing a small group of prisoners with at least a little of privacy.

The Magdeburg barracks - former army barracks were used as a seat of Jewish self-goverment during the WWII.

Today it is used as a museum with extensive exhibitions about cultural activities of involuntary inhabitants of the ghetto and it follows up the exhibitons of the Ghetto museum.

Visitors can learn about the tragic history of the so-called evacuation transports that arrived in Terezín during the final months of the war, when other concentration camps were abandoned as the front moved gradually westwards and their prisoners were taken to Terezín.

The columbarium was set up in the original fortification to store the cremated remains of thousands of victims of the ghetto and the prison in the Small fortress after the crematorium was built behind the town walls in 1942.

The crematorium was built by ghetto prisoners by order of the SS commandery in October 1942. More then 30 000 corps of the victims of the ghetto, prison in the Small fortress and concentration camp in Litomerice were cremated here.

Tours of the fortifications and underground tunnels start directly at the Information Center

Opening hours:
Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 16:00
Price:
Full: 130 CZK
Reduced: 80 CZK
Family: 300 CZK