Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
Eduard de Wind was an inmate doctor of block 9 in the Auschwitz men's hospital. In his testimony he describes in detail medical experiments, which were conducted on the prisoners, mostly women. As an inmate physician, de Wind had the opportunity to…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
The unknown author describes the history of the Terezín Ghetto from 1941 to its liquidation in the summer of 1945. The author focuses on the most import aspects of the daily life, living conditions, and structure of the Ghetto. He also recalls the…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
Very detailed report on the activities of Leo Baeck, Jakob Edelstein, and primarily Richard Friedmann. Friedmann was an Austrian Zionist who worked at the Jewish Community in Vienna and, later, in Prague. He managed to smuggle medicine to the Terezín…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
Detailed report about the Terezín Ghetto from its beginning in November 1941 until the liquidation transports to the East in autumn 1944. The author's name is stated as Helena Faberová, but the text is written from a male perspective. The actual…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Report by Josef Fried on the concentration camp in Buchenwald. Fried describes in detail the harsh living conditions and everyday life of the camp's inmates. He recalls forced labor, torture, and illness.
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.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Lt. H. Vinohradský is the author of five articles published during February and March 1945 in the central journal of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR, which focus on the fate of three Czechoslovak children during the Holocaust. They…
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…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Report by Gustav Herzog on the Buchenwald concentration camp. Herzog describes in detail the harsh living conditions and everyday life of the camp's inmates. He recalls forced labor, illness, torture, and murder.
