Sociology Class Visits TEREZÍN

A group of UNYP students taking Sociology course visited Terezín Memorial on April 17th 2010, which is located 70 km North from Prague.

In 1941 the city of Terezín was converted into a ghetto and concentration camp. Between 1941 and 1945 around 140000 people from all over Europe had passed through Terezín. 35000 of those died there and about 85000 were sent to other concentration camps (like Auschwitz –Birkenau or Treblinka) and died there. This National Suffering Memorial was opened in 1947.

The students visited the cemetery, the Small Fortress – the prison and the torture place of the Gestapo and also the Museum, which is in the center of the city. All the participants showed their respect to the victims and learned the facts about these war crimes. Crimes which should never happen again, but also which should never be forgotten.

The sociology course primarily focuses on six themes such as historical orientation, world in change, the globalizing of social life, comparative stance with other sciences, issues of gender and relations between the social and the personal. It also includes the government, political life, power and war, holocaust, genocide and social and political crises. Moreover it explains the concept of the state, democracy, political parties and voting.