Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Report by Josef Fried on the concentration camp in Buchenwald. Fried describes in detail the harsh living conditions and everyday life of the camp's inmates. He recalls forced labor, torture, and illness.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80.
František Fischhof describes the history of the Old New Synagogue in Prague from the beginning of the Nazi occupation in March 1939 until his deportation to the Terezín Ghetto in March 1943.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Mariana Meissnerová briefly describes her experiences of the Terezín Ghetto and the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Merzdorf camps. She recalls the harsh living conditions in these camps, the illnesses, and slave labor. Her parents and husband perished during…
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.
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.
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…
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…
