From the beginning, the ghetto was meant to fulfil its propagandistic function. Besides allowing the two visits of the Red Cross representatives in the ghetto, the Nazis ordered the filming of a propagandistic movie in Terezín at the end of summer 1944. The film was to give a distorted picture of Terezín ghetto inhabitants’ life. The WWII was over before the Nazis managed to distribute the film to cinemas abroad via the Red Cross.

Within the preparations for the first Red Cross visit, the Sokolovna Sports Hall was changed into a Common Assembly Hall of the ghetto. The Red Cross delegation attended a performance of Brundibár, the famous children's opera. Another theatre performance named Broučci (the Fireflies) based on the book by Jan Karafiát, was to be presented during the second Red Cross delegation visit of the ghetto. Between August and September 1944, the Common Assembly Hall was used for filming the propagandistic documentary: some passages from the children opera mentioned above were filmed there, as well as shots of the terrace that had been altered to look like a café for the purpose.