Terezín & Úštěk — On the Trail of the Shoah.
A full day in the Czech landscape of memory — from the Nazi ghetto-camp that held 155,000 Czech Jews to the near-intact small town of Úštěk where 19th-century Jewish life is still legible.
Duration
Full day (≈ 10 h)
Transport
Coach from Prague
Languages
EN · DE · HE · CZ
Booking
≥ 72 h ahead
Where 155,000 people passed.
Between November 1941 and May 1945, the garrison town of Terezín held more than 155,000 Jewish prisoners from across occupied Europe. It was built as a ghetto and transit point; most of those who passed through went east to Auschwitz. Fewer than 17,000 survived.
Úštěk, an hour's drive north, is a different kind of memorial: a small Bohemian town where the Jewish quarter still stands almost intact — synagogue, school, cemetery on the ridge — preserved by accident rather than design. Your guide, Ruth Hájková, is a historian who specialises in Czech-Jewish communities and has worked with the Terezín Memorial for ten years.
Hour by hour.
The day
Depart Prague by coach
Pick-up at Náměstí Míru. Journey ≈ 1 h.
Small Fortress, Terezín
The Gestapo prison. Introduction to the site's history.
Ghetto Museum
The story of the Terezín ghetto: art, culture, deportation.
Magdeburg Barracks
The ghetto's cultural life — lectures, theatre, music.
Lunch in Terezín
Simple restaurant, own cost.
Drive to Úštěk
Brief orientation: what survived and why.
Úštěk Jewish Quarter
Synagogue, school building, cemetery on the hill.
Return to Prague
Arrive ≈ 18:00.
What's covered
What's included
Historian guide specialising in Czech Shoah (EN / DE / HE / CZ)
Coach from/to Prague
Ghetto Museum & Small Fortress entry
Printed archive notes
Not included
Lunch in Terezín (own cost)
Travel insurance
Tips
On this tour
What groups have said.
"Ruth read from a deportation list — names from the town where my grandfather was born. I couldn't speak for an hour."
— Jewish heritage visitor · Chicago · 2024
"This is not a tour about facts. It's about understanding what happened to real people. Ruth makes that possible."
— Church group · Cologne · 2024
"Úštěk is the part most people miss. The nearly-intact synagogue is extraordinary — and heartbreaking."
— Journalist · Amsterdam · 2025
"The most important day of our entire Central Europe trip. Book it."
— Study group · Brandeis · 2023
Book this tour
Price by group size
1–2 persons
private group · one guide
€ 240
per person
3–5 persons
small group · one guide
€ 112
per person
6+ persons
each additional pax · one guide
€ 90
per person
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Your likely guide
Ruth H. · Terezín specialist
