Documents found: 35

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    1945-10-21 | Erich Nasch | Mauthausen
    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…
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    1945-09-16 | Evžen Schönfeld | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Evžen Schönfeld recounts his experiences of the camps in Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Mühldorf. He focuses on the harsh living conditions in the camps, describes the daily routine, poor food allocations, forced labor, and the death of…
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    1945-10-23 | Erich Nasch | Ebensee
    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…
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    1945-10-22 | Benjamin Lewin | Auschwitz
    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…
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    1945-11 | Julius Lederer | Březnice
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Julius Lederer, the Chairman of the postwar Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia, provides a brief overview of the history of the Jewish cemetery in Březnice, starting in 1500 until its partial demolition and destruction…
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    1945-07-23 | Petr Lang | Litoměřice
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Petr Lang describes, in his brief report, the living conditions and daily routine in the Litoměřice labor camp, where he was deported in January 1945.
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    1945-11-19 | Ota Klinger | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Ota Klinger describes what he experienced in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was deported in December 1943. His report is brief and mainly focuses on his forced labor in the potato kitchen and on the torture practices of the SS men and Polish capos.
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    1945-11 | Berta Gerzonová | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Berta Gerzonová recalls several days in autumn 1944, when she was deported from the Terezín Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then to other camps. In a literary style, she describes the transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the shock that inmates…
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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,…
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    1945-09 | Hanuš Adler | Skarzysko Kamienna
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Testimony of Hanuš Adler describing harsh living conditions and hunger in the Łódź Ghetto, where he was deported from Prague in 1941. In 1944, he was sent for forced labor to the camps in Skarżysko-Kamienna and Częstochowa, and in 1945 was evacuated…