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 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.
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.
Benjamin Lewin describes his fate after being deported from the Terezín Ghetto in autumn 1944 until the liberation of the Belzig camp. His is a survivor of various camps. From Auschwitz-Birkenau, he was transported to the Čechovice/Czechowice…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Julius Lederer, the Chairman of the postwar Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia, provides a brief overview of the history of the Jewish cemetery in Březnice, starting in 1500 until its partial demolition and destruction…
