The film tells about the military city of Terezin, which was built in Czechoslovakia on the basis of the architecture of French fortresses and was a fortress for political prisoners and military prisoners in 1940-1945. The film includes filming: a memorial plaque laid by Emperor Josef Theroy on October 6, 1680. The surviving photographs, construction drawings of the Small and Large fortresses of Terezina. Photos of the first prisoners who arrived from Prague in 1940, political prisoners, military prisoners. Photo portraits of the head of the Small Fortress Terezin G. Jocher, the Terozin executioner S. Roiko. Photo-portraits of the communist, poet Ivan [Yavar], the messenger of Mlada Piksova executed in the fortress during WWII. b / w c / t 1940-egg. The building of the Great Fortress, which was the "Jewish Ghetto" during WWII. The Nazis are on the territory of the fortress. b / w photographs 1940-es. - Jewish settlers. c / t b / w 1940s - documentary footage of an advertising tape about everyday life in the Jewish ghetto. Place of execution of prisoners in the courtyard of the Small Fortress. Personal belongings of prisoners. Drawings of dead children in Terezín. The interior and exterior of the building of the secret factory "Richard" in the city of Litomerice for the production of tanks "Tiger" and self-propelled guns "Panther", built by prisoners of Terosin. b / w photos (1945) - Soviet tanks on the streets of Terezin. b / w photographs of released prisoners.