The Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia had no food, and many inmates died of starvation or disease. The original population was about 6,000 in 1943, about 100,000 were incarcerated in the camp. About 300 people died each day from disease, starvation, and overwork.

　There was no food in the Theresienstadt camp, and many inmates died of starvation or disease. The Theresienstadt camp had an original population of about 6,000, and in 1943, about 100,000 people were interned. Every day, about 300 people died each day from disease, starvation, and overwork.

  In March 1939, the Germans invaded Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovakia was dismantled. A concentration camp was established on November 24, 1941 in Terezin, about 60 km north of Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. Terezin utilized a fortress installed in the 18th century, surrounded by a deep moat and thick, high earthen walls, at the camp. About 400,000 Jews were interned at Terezin, and on January 20, 1942, the Winsee Conference announced a plan for the extermination of the Jews.

　In 1942, the Nazis expelled approximately 7,000 Czechs who lived in Terezin and isolated them in the closed environment of the Jewish settlement. The Nazis initially designated the Terezin camp as a camp for elderly, privileged, and famous Jews from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Western Europe; beginning in the fall of 1942, more than a dozen freight trains began forcing those unable to work forcibly from Terezin to the Auschwitz concentration camp, an extermination camp in the east. They were taken to Auschwitz, an extermination camp in the east. Terezin was used as a transit point to Auschwitz.

　Approximately 15,000 children passed through the Terezin camp where their education continued with a rigorous daily routine of classes, athletic activities, and art. They drew pictures and wrote poetry. By the end of the war, however, fewer than 150 to 1,100 children survived. 44-year-old female painter Friedl Dicker Prandis stood up for painting education by risking her life, which was forbidden. on October 6, 1944, painter Friedl also was forcibly taken to the East.

　On May 15, 1944, a delegation of the International Red Cross visited Terezin. The inmates were made to disguise their absolute submission through fear and execution; November 1944 was the last forced removal from Terezin to Auschwitz. The Germans transferred the camp to the International Red Cross on May 3, and Soviet troops liberated the Terezin concentration camp on May 10, 1945. About 4,000 paintings with the children's names were found in the trunk 10 years later. Of the approximately 144,000 Jews sent to Terezin camp, about 33,000 died at Terezin and about 88,000 were sent to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Only 19,000 survived to the end of the war.