Documentation Campaign

The online edition focuses on Holocaust survivor´s testimonies collected within the framework of the so-called “Documentation Campaign” in Prague (Dokumentační akce), one of the earliest postwar projects to document the events of the Shoah, collecting evidence, documents, and witness testimonies. The founder of this initiative was Zeev Schek, a pre-war Zionist and survivor of the Terezín Ghetto and Auschwitz, who later emigrated to Palestine. Most protocols were compiled in 1945 and 1946 in either Czech or German language.

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Co-workers of the Documentation Campaign in Prague (Dokumentační akce), 1946.
From left: Ze'ev Shek, Edita Saxlová, Robert Weinberger, Harald Tressler, Berta Gerzonová, Ruth Bondy, Jiří Lauscher.
Courtesy of Rachel Shek.

Criminal complaint regarding Gestapo members from Olomouc Paul Hündgen and Karl Bankl

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1946-01 | Paul Hündgen | Olomouc

Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 83a. Original in Czech.

Criminal complaint regarding the Gestapo members from Olomouc Paul Hündgen and Karl Bankl. The report lists specific acts of violence against the Jews of Olomouc for which Hündgen and Bankl were responsible and that led to the death of a number of…

Report from an unknown author on youth welfare in the Terezín Ghetto, 1941–1944

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Youth Welfare Department | Terezín Ghetto

Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.

Detailed report on youth welfare in the Terezín Ghetto. The unknown author sheds light on the topic of children and youth, including their housing, education, and general living conditions.

H. Safirstein and A. Zucher, on the mobile gas chambers in Baranowicze

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1945-10-03 | Baranowicze Ghetto

Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.

Very brief report by partisans H. Safirstein and A. Zucher on the existence of mobile gas chambers in Baranowicze and the accounts of Czech Jewish inmates.

Valerie Straussová, the death of a group of Jewish women in Upper Silesia

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1945-07-23 | Valerie Straussová | Schlesiersee

Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.

Valerie Straussová was deported in autumn 1944 from the Terezín Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was selected for forced labor and sent to Sława (Schlesiersee), a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. At the end of January 1945, the camp was evacuated and…

Zeev Scheck, on the children's home of the Prague Jewish Community

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Zeev Scheck | Prague

Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80.

Zeev Scheck reports on the children's home of the Prague Jewish Community 1942–1944, which was responsible for the education of Jewish children after they were forbidden from attending public and Jewish schools. He briefly describes educational…

Erich Nasch, on the deportation of his family to the Terezín Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Terezín Ghetto