Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Max Borger provides a detailed and extensive report on the Terezín Ghetto. He starts with his deportation from Ostrava in September 1942. He focuses on the living conditions, housing, food rations, and forced labor in the Ghetto. The report sheds…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 83a. Original in Czech.
Bruno Deutsch, Erich Hirsch, and Alfred Arely filed a denunciation of Gestapo member Paul Hündgen from Olomouc. In their report, they describe the acts of violence that they witnessed against the Jews of Olomouc. They also state the names of Jewish…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Lt. H. Vinohradský is the author of five articles published during February and March 1945 in the central journal of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR, which focus on the fate of three Czechoslovak children during the Holocaust. They…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Erich Schön (later named Kulka) was a Czech-Israeli writer, historian, and journalist. After World War II, he made it his life's mission to research the Holocaust and make public his findings about it. In his report for the Documentation campaign in…
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 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…
