0 departed to do forestry. Many jobs the S. S required were war related. One early month in 1942, the S. S stretched an awning over the town square and assigned 1000 men and woman to make kits especially designed for German tanks. An on going joke for the workers was “Terezin has the only circus in the world where the people work and the animals (S. S) watch.” In September of 1942, the rules loosened a bit more. The S. S began allowing residents to send cards outside of Theresiensadt, containing no more then 30 words each month. Soon after that, the S. S began allowing residents to receive packages containing food and clothes from friends and relatives. By the spring of 1943 over 3, 000 packages were being received a month. At the same time, The S. S was allowing the Red Cross, and other organizations to send food. This both boosted the health and psyche for the residents of Theresienstadt because it reassured them that the world didn’t forget about them. Many of the residents in Theresienstadt, despite the conditions, felt safe from being deported. Then in 1944 the S. S made a change. They decided to deport 1000 Jews that January to the east. People who had thought it was safe had now lost all sense of security. The S. S continued for the next 13 months to send over 50, 000 people of Theresienstadt to the east. The only people who hadn’t need to worry were the residents in valid Aryan marriage with or with out children, and war veterans. The Nazi’s then began to use deportation as a punishment. If a person somehow got two rations of food, off they would go to the cattle cars. There was a new fear then going around Theresiensadt, people would be afraid to wake up in the morning for fear of being deported that evening. As the months passed and it drew closer to 1945 the arrivals and deportations continued, the war was finally ending. In May of 1945, Theresienstadt was liberated by the R...
