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Theresienstadt (Terezín) was a transit ghetto that the Nazis used to facilitate the deportation of Czech Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The systematic, mass transport of Czech Jews to the Theresienstadt ghetto began on November 30, 1941. Over the next several years, transports of Czech Jews arrived at Theresienstadt from Czech cities such as Brno, Prague, České Budějovice, Olomouc, Pardubice, Tábor, Plzen, and many others.
In total, from November 1941 to spring 1945, the German authorities sent nearly 74,000 Czech Jews to the Theresienstadt ghetto. The Germans deported approximately 80 percent of these Czech Jews from Theresienstadt to other ghettos, killing centers, killing sites, and camps in German-occupied eastern Europe. Few of these people survived the Holocaust.
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