Documents found: 30

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    Zeev Scheck | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Zeev Scheck lyrically describes his recollections of an old Jewish prisoner from Lithuania, who managed to smuggle his violin into the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, but was later caught and tortured by an SS member.
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    Eduard de Wind | Auschwitz
    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…
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    1946-01 | Germany
    Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
    Hilda Zadikow describes the life of her husband Arnold Zadikow, a German-Jewish sculptor and medalist who worked in Germany and France. In 1933, he moved with his wife and daughter to Czechoslovakia and in May 1942 they were deported to the Terezín…
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    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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    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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    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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    Jaworzno
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Short report by Paul Heller on Jaworzno, a sub-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Heller describes the harsh living conditions in the camp, forced labor, and the situation of the inmates. He also focuses on the names of the main perpetrators and the SS men…
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    Buchenwald
    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.
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    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…