The best way to see Terezín’s Lesser Fortress is to take a self-guided tour through the prison barracks, isolation cells, workshops and morgues, past execution grounds and former mass graves. The Nazis’ mocking concentration camp slogan, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free), hangs above the gate to the inner yard. It would be hard to invent a more menacing location, and it is only while wandering through the seemingly endless tunnels beneath the walls that you begin to fully appreciate the vast dimensions of the fortress.
In front of the fortress is a National Cemetery , established in 1945 for the victims exhumed from the Nazis’ mass graves.
