Prague, on November 15th, 1945

DOCUMENTATION CAMPAIGN

Jewish Agency for Palestine.

EZRA COMMITTEE FOR THE CSR

Prague V., Josefovská 7. tel. 620-02

Statistics on the rooms

Preferential better housing (children’s rooms, etc.)

Number of inhabitants: 12

Size: 6 x 4 m … 34 sq. m. i.e. 2 sq. m. per person (theoretically) after subtracting the furniture, sized 10.7 sq. m., the actual residential area per person is … 1.1 sq. m.

space: 6 x 4 x 3.20 m … 76.8 m3 (theoretically), after subtracting the furniture, sized about 4.8 m3, the actual space is 72 m3 for 12 peopleor 6 m3 per person for 12 hours for 1 person and for 1 hour ….. 0.5 m3 of air!

Due to insufficient supplies of coal, the windows often remained closed.

Modeller:

Jiří Lauscher

Documentation Campaign: Scheck

16. XI. 1945

Alex Schmiedt

Statement

Written with Mr. Jiří Lauscher, born 15. 9. 1901 in Theresienstadt, residing in Prague VII., Heřmanova 43, Jewish nationality, profession private civil servant, former prisoner of the Theresienstadt - ghetto concentr. camp.

I am handing over various applied - art articles modeled on the originals that were manufactured in Theresienstadt as gifts. I have created a large number of these articles for the documentation campaign.

Signature:

Jiří Lauscher

Statement accepted by:

Helena Schicková

Signature of witnesses: Dita Saxlová

Berta Gerzonová

On behalf of the documentation campaign:

Scheck

On behalf of the archive:

Alex. Schmiedt

19. 10. 1945

Model of a Theresienstadt room at an exact scale of 1:10. The room shows preferential housing, for example for youths if they weren’t placed in houses.

Model of housing in the Erdbunker at a scale of 1:20. The roof has been simplified because at this size the details wouldn’t be seen. The sketch depicts the actual building. It was not produced in a workshop. The models have been created with primitive tools.

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