Bohemia and Moravia During World War II, the Gestapo used Theresienstadt, known in Czech as Terezín, as a ghetto, where Jews from Czechoslovakia, as well as Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Denmark were imprisoned. About 33 000 of the 155 000 Jews who lived in the ghetto died, mostly because of disease and malnutrition arising out of extreme population density. The Small Fortress adjacent to the ghetto served as the largest Gestapo prison in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The camp was liberated on May 9th, 1945 by the Soviet Army. Residents were forced to send labels to friends and family to be affixed to any parcels sent to inhabitants of the ghetto. The labels idealized the conditions in Theresienstadt. The labels exist both with and without perforations and in a variety of colours. There are also reprints and counterfeits of the stamps.
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