November 9, 1943: At the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto, Council of Elders head Jacob Edelstein and three other Jews are accused of saving 55 of the ghetto's Jews from deportation by falsifying

1944: The final deportation train from Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, to Auschwitz arrives at the camp. Of the 2038 prisoners on board, 1689 are immediately gassed. October 30, 1944: The Germans transfer

concentration camp is established at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, 35 miles from Prague. To prepare for the imminent arrival of inmates, 342 young Jewish men from Prague are brought in as forced laborers.

All women and children on a train traveling from Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, to Auschwitz are gassed upon arrival. October 6, 1944: The Red Army enters Hungary. October 6-7, 1944: Sonderkommando

1942: Three thousand Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to their deaths. June 13, 1942: British Ambassador to the Vatican Francis d'Arcy Osborne observes about Pope

Nazis grudgingly allow the Red Cross to inspect the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto. The "inspection," however, was a charade, as the Nazis briefly turned the prison into a comfortable "model"

takes over the administration of the camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia. The last of the camp's SS men flee. May 4, 1945: The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division liberates the concentration camp

A Red Cross delegation visits the camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, and is apparently fooled by the camp's superficially benign atmosphere. However, the Red Cross almost simultaneously sends

A death march from Schwarzheide, Germany, to Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, that began on April 18 halts at Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia. 1945: Liberation and Rebuilding pg. 622 The Holocaust Chronicle

Sered Slovakia 13,500 (deported to Theresienstadt) Stutthof Poland 65,000 to 85,000 Theresienstadt Prague, Czechoslovakia 33,430 Trawniki Lublin, Poland 10,000 Major Jewish Ghettos Ghetto