Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Zeev Scheck lyrically describes his recollections of an old Jewish prisoner from Lithuania, who managed to smuggle his violin into the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, but was later caught and tortured by an SS member.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 90. Original in Czech.
Report by Tucny, Fuchs, Flato, Brandstetter, and Morgenstern on the virulent anti-Semitism of postwar Poland. They recall various violent attacks against Jews, murders, and the pogrom in Kraków that took place in August 1945.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
The unknown author describes the history of the Terezín Ghetto from 1941 to its liquidation in the summer of 1945. The author focuses on the most import aspects of the daily life, living conditions, and structure of the Ghetto. He also recalls the…
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…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Erika Wolfová describes the support project, in which some members of the youth Zionist movement in Prague were involved. Their main task was to help with parcels and remain in written contact with deported Jews and the Zionist movement abroad. She…
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, 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 83a. Original in Czech.
Bruno Deutsch, Erich Hirsch, and Alfred Arely filed a denunciation of Gestapo member Paul Hündgen from Olomouc. In their report, they describe the acts of violence that they witnessed against the Jews of Olomouc. They also state the names of Jewish…
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…
