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.
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.
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.
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. 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, Terezín collection, inv. no 321d. Original in German.
Otto Muneles was a Czech Hebraist, who was deported to the Terezín Ghetto in summer 1943. In the protocol he reports about his work assignment in so called Talmudkommando, in which the prisoners sorted and catalogued Hebrew books and titles related…
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.
