Entrance to the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp in the Czech Republic,
with the cynical inscription "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" (Work Sets You Free) above it.
Theresienstadt functioned as a ghetto, assembly camp, and concentration camp
during World War II, run by the Nazis. Nazi propaganda misleadingly portrayed it
as a "health resort" or "model ghetto" for elderly Jews, to conceal the true nature
of the deportations. In reality, it was a transit camp where more than 150,000 Jews,
including 15,000 children, were held before being deported to extermination camps
such as Auschwitz.The camp operated from November 1941 to May 1945.