Documents found: 8

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    1945-12-05 | Richard Friedmann | Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
    Very detailed report on the activities of Leo Baeck, Jakob Edelstein, and primarily Richard Friedmann. Friedmann was an Austrian Zionist who worked at the Jewish Community in Vienna and, later, in Prague. He managed to smuggle medicine to the Terezín…
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    Buchenwald
    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.
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    1945-10-21 | Erich Nasch | Mauthausen
    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…
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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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    1945-10 | Erich Schön | Auschwitz-Birkenau
    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…
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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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    Sianki
    Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
    Adalbert Fehér was a Jewish doctor in a forced labor unit 108/57 of the Hungarian army. In his brief report he describes the harsh living conditions and persecution of the Jewish forced labourers in Sianki.
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    Buchenwald
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Report by Gustav Herzog on the Buchenwald concentration camp. Herzog describes in detail the harsh living conditions and everyday life of the camp's inmates. He recalls forced labor, illness, torture, and murder.