The Jewish Cemetery at the crematorium Terezín

Before a crematorium was built at Terezín, the ghetto’s victims were buried in individual or mass graves at the Bohušovice basin, several hundred metres south of the square. Though it was used for that purpose for less than a year, up to 9,000 ghetto residents were buried in that period.

The Nazis applied themselves to the matter of the liquidation of prisoners and the subsequent removal of all traces and 1,250 individual and 217 mass graves containing a total of around 9,000 people were uncovered in the grounds of the cemetery after the war. The burials took place between December 1941 and October 1942, when a crematorium was put into operation. In 1975 symbolic uniform headstones were placed in the cemetery, a central granite memorial in the form of seven-branched candelabrum was erected, and individual tombstones with names were moved to the western edge of the cemetery, which is also the location of the joint grave of 16 men executed in 1942. A symbolic Avenue of the Nations is planted in the south-eastern part of the cemetery, while a 1955 monument to the victims of torture stands on its eastern edge.