Documents found: 22

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    Josef Klaber | Terezín Ghetto
    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.
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    Jan Bondy | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
    Jan Bondy briefly describes an incident with Karl Rahm and Rudolf Haindl in which he was involved, providing testimony of their cruelty to the inmates of the Terezín Ghetto.
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    Max Borger | Moravská Ostrava
    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…
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    1945-02 | H. Vinohradský | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    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…
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    1945-09-16 | Evžen Schönfeld | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    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…
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    1945-07-23 | Petr Lang | Litoměřice
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
    Petr Lang describes, in his brief report, the living conditions and daily routine in the Litoměřice labor camp, where he was deported in January 1945.
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    1945-11 | Berta Gerzonová | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    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…
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    1945-09 | Hanuš Adler | Skarzysko Kamienna
    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…
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    Terezín Ghetto
    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…
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    1945-07-23 | Valerie Straussová | Schlesiersee
    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…