Documents found: 11

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    EHRI-DC-055
    1945-08 | Terezín Ghetto
    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…
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    1945-12-05 | Richard Friedmann | Terezín Ghetto
    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…
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    EHRI-DC-052
    1945-05-05 | Terezín Ghetto
    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…
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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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    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.
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    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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    1945 | Erich Nasch
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 81. Original in Czech.
    Erich Nasch and Robert Weinberger provide a brief report of their activities for the Documentation campaign. In October 1945, they visited several former labor and concentration camps in Austria and Germany to gather evidence about the events of the…
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    1945-02 | H. Vinohradský | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    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…
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    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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    František Kahn | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Zeev Scheck recounts the life of František Kahn, who worked for Zionist organizations and the Jewish Community in Prague. Kahn was deported to the Terezín Ghetto in January 1943. There, he refused to play a major role in the Council of the Elders,…