1 . The National Cemetery in Terezín .
Nazi occupation . The history of other groups of freedom fighters was reduced , as was information about the fate of the Jewish inmates of the Terezín Ghetto . At the time , there was practically no reminder of the existence of a Jewish Ghetto in the town of Terezín . On 15 December 1952 , a proposal to set up an exhibition about the Terezín Ghetto in one of the houses in the town of Terezín was discussed in the committee in charge of the Memorial , though it was ultimately rejected because information about the Ghetto appeared in the exhibition in the Small Fortress Museum . It is quite significant that this discussion was held in the hysterical , anti-Semitic atmosphere around the so-called Slánský trial . At the time , there were many anti-Semitic trends . However , the democratic traditions of pre-war Czechoslovakia ( connected mainly with the personality of former president T . G . Masaryk ) were more powerful than Communist propaganda and Nazi propaganda during WWII . The vast majority of the population did not take part in the campaign against the Jews . Nevertheless , this post-war history tarnished Czechoslovakia ’ s reputation .
This more direct anti-Semitism was replaced by anti-Zionism in the mid-1950s . For the Terezín Memorial , the consequences were the same , because everything related to Judaism and Jewish history was suspect to the authorities .
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