Restaurants and Hotel
in Terezin
Restaurant on Hauptstrasse
near Magdeburg Museum in Terezin
Two of the original Theresienstadt buildings
have been converted into Holocaust museums, and near both of
these buildings, there was the overpowering smell of raw sewage.
One of the two restaurants where I ate was located in this foul
smelling area near the museum in the former Magdeburg Barracks
building on Hauptstrasse. In spite of this, the restaurent shown
in the photo above had plenty of tourists as customers, and the
smoke-filled bar was full of local men enjoying a midday beer
or two. I ordered a plate of cabbage and potatoes because I wanted
to get an idea of what it must have been like in the ghetto;
the food was the worst I've ever tasted in my life, so I felt
as though I were truly having the ghetto experience. In all fairness
to this restaurant, which is highly recommended in some tourist
guidebooks, maybe cabbage and potatoes is not their speciality,
or it could be that I just lost my appetite in this depressing
environment.
There was a Kosher restaurant on Langestrasse
near the Ghetto Museum, and next to it was another small restaurant
which was open early in the morning, so that I could have a nice
breakfast, including hot tea which was served in a tall glass
without a handle.
Kosher restaurant on
the corner; restaurant on the left opened early in 2000
Park Hotel at the former
location of the SS barracks
In 2000 when I visited, there was even
a hotel, called the Park Hotel, which was located where the SS
soldiers' barracks used to be when the town was the Theresienstadt
ghetto.
Building in Theresienstadt
used as a concert hall
Terezin has everything that you would
expect to find in any normal town: shops, restaurants, a hotel,
a post office, four parks and a town hall, but it is not a normal
town. The memories here are too fresh and too painful for this
place to be a normal town.
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