Crematorium in Litoměřice, Crematorium near limestone quarries in Litoměřice, Czech Republic.

The Crematorium in Litoměřice occupies a former brick-drying building of the Litoměřice brickyard, about one kilometre from the camp. The small, inconspicuous structure held a furnace room and, next to it, a smaller room where bodies were laid on a slightly sloping concrete floor. Smoke from the furnaces was led through an underground channel into the brickyard's chimney and mixed with its smoke.

The crematorium was built in a former brick-drying shed of the Litoměřice brickyard, about one kilometre from the camp, because the crematoria at Ústí nad Labem and Terezín could not handle the roughly 4,500 prisoners who died during the typhus epidemic of winter 1944 and spring 1945. Construction ran from early February to mid-March 1945 under a plan by the architect Naumann, carried out by a BSA work group of forced civilian labourers and camp prisoners. Trial operation began in March 1945 and permanent operation in April; the last cremations took place on 2 and 3 May 1945.

The crematorium was run by SS Obersturmführer Huber, and five prisoners formed the kommando that operated the furnaces. After the war, his private notes revealed that about 405 bodies were burned here. The last cremations took place on 2 and 3 May 1945, after a large execution at the Terezín Small Fortress.

The crematorium stands about one kilometre from the former Litoměřice camp, in the western suburb south of the brickyard, within the Richard complex. The small building is reached on foot through that area; the site is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. Allow time to walk there and back.

The crematorium's chimney was not its own: smoke from the furnaces was led through an underground duct into the brickyard's chimney and mixed with its smoke. The building was a former brick drying shed about one kilometre from the camp, and ash was crushed outside and scattered on the path or in a pit beside it.