Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Rudolf Klein describes in detail autopsies in the Terezín Ghetto. As a medical student, he was one of the people who performed them. He also provides an overview of the cremation and burial of corpses in the Ghetto.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Josef Klaber provides a report on the "ladybirds" ("berušky") in the Terezín Ghetto, i.e. German women who searched the Jews from the arriving transports and confiscated illegal items, such as money, tobacco, jewelry, and contraband.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Josef Klaber provides a report on Karl Löwenstein, the head of the Security Department in the Terezín Ghetto. He describes his activities, behavior towards the prisoners, and his position in the ghetto.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Otto Friedländer was deported from the Terezín Ghetto to the Wulkow labor camp (Baukommando Zossen). He describes the harsh living conditions in the camp, the hunger, the illnesses, and the torture of the camp's inmates.
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 81. Original in Czech.
Erich Nasch and Robert Weinberger, co-workers of 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. Before crossing…
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…
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.
Edita Stützová briefly describes the events of Kristallnacht in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad). The synagogue on Sadová was set on fire and Jewish inhabitants were arrested, most of whom were sent to the internment camp in Olšová vrata.
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…
