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This listing of hotels, hostels and camp sites will help. more City Hall. Visitor Information - Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Historical picture of the entrance to the prisoners' camp On March 22, 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor, a concentration camp for political prisoners was set up in Dachau.

Visitor Information - Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

This camp served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a "school of violence" for the SS men under whose command it stood. In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 persons from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in the numerous subsidary camps. 41.500 were murdered. On April 29 1945, American troops liberated the survivors. Lidice-memorial. Transport to Pilsen: Official website of the City of Pilsen. From Václav Havel Airport in Prague Pilsen is 90 km/50 minutes by car.From the airport, city bus no.100 goes to Praha-Zličín (tickets can be purchased from the driver for 30 CZK).

Transport to Pilsen: Official website of the City of Pilsen

From Praha-Zličín bus station, yellow Student Agency buses go to Pilsen (departures are every hour and tickets can be purchased at the counter inside the building with public restrooms next to the metro station, price 100 CZK). Buses are sometimes full, so it is good to have an advance reservation. Reservations and schedules: www.studentagency.cz | www.idos.cz It is possible to rent a car at the airport in Prague. For more information on car rentals click here.For a Taxi from the airport call tel: 222 333 222 (approx. 2,700 CZK).

By bus. Jewish Museum Collections. Prague. Památník Terezín. Czech Republic - Terezín. Terezín – linger in quiet humility Terezín is a fortress built by the Enlightenment ruler Josef II and although the building named after his mother Maria Theresa was supposed to be used for defence, it paradoxically became infamous first of all as a prison, and later during World War Two as a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp.

Czech Republic - Terezín

Czech Republic - Along the Jewish trails in the Plzeň Region. The Jewish trails of the Plzeň Region!

Czech Republic - Along the Jewish trails in the Plzeň Region

The Plzeň Region is a place where for centuries people belonging to various cultures and faiths lived side by side. They left behind a number of sites which can still be admired today. An integral part of the history of the Plzeň Region is the Jewish community, whose buildings, traditions and customs are very much alive today. Set out on a journey of discovery to reveal the story behind the Jewish houses, synagogues and cemeteries of the region. Pilsner Urquell Visit - Brewery Tours - Pilsner Urquel, Gambrinus, Radegast, Velké Popovice - Brewery Museum. Czech Republic - Czech Republic - Villa Tugendhat. Functionalism in Villa Tugendhat Villa Tugendhat has borne witness to the birth of modern housing and also to the tragic fate of the people who lived there.

Czech Republic - Villa Tugendhat

This work by the famous German architect Mies van der Rohe is to this very day regarded as one of the four most important villas in the world. Jewish Museum in Prague. Karlštejn. History[edit] Founded in 1348, the construction works were directed by the later Karlštejn burgrave Vitus of Bítov, but there are no records of the builder himself.

Karlštejn

Some historian speculate that Matthias of Arras may be credited with being the architect, but he had already died by 1352. It is likely that there was not a progressive and cunning architect, but a brilliant civil engineer who dextrously and with a necessary mathematical accuracy solved technically exigent problems that issued from the emperor's ideas and requests. Instead, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV personally supervised the construction works and interior decoration.

Theresienstadt concentration camp. Coordinates : 50°30′48″N 14°10′1″E  /  50.51333°N 14.16694°E  / 50.51333; 14.16694 The (2005) , also referred to as Theresienstadt Ghetto, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín (German name ), located in what is now the Czech Republic. During World War II it served as a Nazi concentration camp staffed in equal numbers by German Nazi guards and their ethnic Czech collaborators.

Tens of thousands of Jews were murdered there and over 150,000 others (including tens of thousands of children) were held there for months or years, before then being sent to their deaths on rail transports to Treblinka and Auschwitz extermination camps in Poland, as well as to smaller camps elsewhere. [ edit ] History. Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape.