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 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…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Norbert Fried briefly describes the Dachau camp trial, the role of witnesses from Czechoslovakia, his statement, and the reason why, from his perspective, this trial was more objective than the Belsen trial.
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,…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Valerie Straussová was deported in autumn 1944 from the Terezín Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was selected for forced labor and sent to Sława (Schlesiersee), a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. At the end of January 1945, the camp was evacuated and…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Short report by Leo Herzog mainly on his deportation to the Minsk Ghetto and labor camp in Budzyń (Lublin). He describes the harsh living conditions, illnesses, hunger, and forced labor.
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…
