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.
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…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80.
Zeev Scheck reports on the children's home of the Prague Jewish Community 1942–1944, which was responsible for the education of Jewish children after they were forbidden from attending public and Jewish schools. He briefly describes educational…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Detailed, personal report about the fate of Erich Nasch and his family during World War II. Nasch mainly focuses on their deportation to the Terezín Ghetto and to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He highlights the life story of his wife and little son, who were…
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…
Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
Adalbert Fehér was a Jewish doctor in a forced labor unit 108/57 of the Hungarian army. In his brief report he describes the harsh living conditions and persecution of the Jewish forced labourers in Sianki.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Very brief report by partisans H. Safirstein and A. Zucher on the existence of mobile gas chambers in Baranowicze and the accounts of Czech Jewish inmates.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Detailed report on youth welfare in the Terezín Ghetto. The unknown author sheds light on the topic of children and youth, including their housing, education, and general living conditions.
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…
