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, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 83a. Original in Czech.
Bruno Deutsch, Erich Hirsch, and Alfred Arely filed a denunciation of Gestapo member Paul Hündgen from Olomouc. In their report, they describe the acts of violence that they witnessed against the Jews of Olomouc. They also state the names of Jewish…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Jiří Lauscher briefly describes his pre-war life and career. He mainly recounts his Zionist activities. In 1920, he travelled to the United States for Hachshara at a fruit farm in California. In 1925, he was sent by the Czechoslovak Zionist…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Detailed, personal report about the fate of Erich Nasch and his family during World War II. Nasch mainly focuses on their deportation to the Terezín Ghetto and to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He highlights the life story of his wife and little son, who were…
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…
