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The education of the children and youth was considered one of the most important issues in Terezin Ghetto. Many educators and take- carers searched for the 'proper' or 'real education', or for what the meaning and aim of education in a ghetto is supposed to be. In a ghetto which represented just a kind of transfer station on the way further to the East. In a ghetto where the death was everyday reality and where all the rules and values valid in a common society were trodden on in an unprecedented way. What is or should be the aim of education in a forced society, in a ghetto which was founded on the basis of the depraved ideology of national socialism and the aim of which was to exterminate and whose 'inhabitants' were in thousands transported to their deaths? The following study deals not only with the issue of aims and means of education in Terezin, the formation of the department of Jewish self-government Care for Children and Youth, but also with the issue of children homes and their everyday educational programme. The issues investigated is also put to the context of Terezin Ghetto, or to the "Final Solution" to the Jewish Problem in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.