Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Josef Klaber provides a report on Jacob Edelstein (chairman of the Council of Elders in the Terezín Ghetto), Ota Zucker (member of the Council of Elders in the Terezín Ghetto), and Erich Munk (member of the Council of Elders in the Terezín 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 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.
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…
