Documents found: 15

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    EHRI-DC-046
    1945-09-09 | Prague
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Erika Wolfová describes the support project, in which some members of the youth Zionist movement in Prague were involved. Their main task was to help with parcels and remain in written contact with deported Jews and the Zionist movement abroad. She…
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    EHRI-DC-064
    1945-08-28 | Teplá
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Dorit Ternerová describes in detail the exhumation of the victims of the death marches she has witnessed in the town of Teplá.
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    EHRI-DC-033
    Mariana Meissnerová | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
    Mariana Meissnerová briefly describes her experiences of the Terezín Ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Merzdorf camps. She recalls the harsh living conditions in these camps, the illnesses, and slave labor. Her parents and husband perished during…
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    EHRI-DC-032
    Jiří Lauscher | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
    Jiří Lauscher briefly describes the technical parameters of the rooms in the Terezín Ghetto and attaches a drawing as an example.
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    EHRI-DC-031
    Rudolf Klein | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
    Rudolf Klein describes in detail autopsies in the Terezín Ghetto. As a medical student, he was one of the people who performed them. He also provides an overview of the cremation and burial of corpses in the Ghetto.
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    Jan Bondy | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
    Jan Bondy briefly describes an incident with Karl Rahm and Rudolf Haindl in which he was involved, providing testimony of their cruelty to the inmates of the Terezín Ghetto.
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    EHRI-DC-023
    1945-09 | Jindřich Goldstein | Prague
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 90. Original in Czech.
    Jindřich Goldstein briefly describes the anti-Semitic attitude of clerks he witnessed at the Liberated Political Prisoners organization in Prague.
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    EHRI-DC-013
    1945-09-16 | Evžen Schönfeld | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Evžen Schönfeld recounts his experiences of the camps in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Mühldorf. He focuses on the harsh living conditions in the camps, describes the daily routine, poor food allocations, forced labor, and the death of…
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    EHRI-DC-012
    1945-10 | Erich Schön | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Erich Schön (later named Kulka) was a Czech-Israeli writer, historian, and journalist. After World War II, he made it his life's mission to research the Holocaust and make public his findings about it. In his report for the Documentation campaign in…
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    EHRI-DC-010
    1945-10-22 | Benjamin Lewin | Auschwitz
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Benjamin Lewin describes his fate after being deported from the Terezín Ghetto in autumn 1944 until the liberation of the Belzig camp. His is a survivor of various camps. From Auschwitz-Birkenau, he was transported to the Čechovice/Czechowice…