Theresienstadt: The"Model Ghetto"#13 Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer notes: "Of the 139,654 Jews deported to Theresienstadt before April 1945, a scant 16,832 were freed when the ghetto was liberated after the end of the war, on May 9, 1945." It is one of the most melancholy, yet heroic stories of the entire Holocaust era. It must not, and it cannot be forgotten.