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…
1945-05-14 | Julius Ludolph | Melk concentration camp
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Hermann Hofstädt describes his arrival from Mauthausen to the Melk concentration camp in April 1944. He focuses on the harsh living conditions in the camp, the torture of its inmates, and the role of camp commander Julius Ludolph and other SS men.
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.
Otto Friedländer was deported from the Terezín Ghetto to the Wulkow labor camp (Baukommando Zossen). He describes the harsh living conditions in the camp, the hunger, the illnesses, and the torture of the camp's inmates.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Max Borger provides a detailed and extensive report on the Terezín Ghetto. He starts with his deportation from Ostrava in September 1942. He focuses on the living conditions, housing, food rations, and forced labor in the Ghetto. The report sheds…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Erich Nasch and Robert Weinberger, co-workers in the Documentation campaign, visited several former labor and concentration camps in Austria and Germany a few months after the war to gather evidence about the events of the Holocaust. In this…
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 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…
