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.
Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
Eduard de Wind was an inmate doctor of block 9 in the Auschwitz men's hospital. In his testimony he describes in detail medical experiments, which were conducted on the prisoners, mostly women. As an inmate physician, de Wind had the opportunity to…
Yad Vashem Archives, Czechoslovakia Collection (O.7) Original in German.
Hilda Zadikow describes the life of her husband Arnold Zadikow, a German-Jewish sculptor and medalist who worked in Germany and France. In 1933, he moved with his wife and daughter to Czechoslovakia and in May 1942 they were deported to the Terezín…
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, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
Detailed report about the Terezín Ghetto from its beginning in November 1941 until the liquidation transports to the East in autumn 1944. The author's name is stated as Helena Faberová, but the text is written from a male perspective. The actual…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
Brief report on the lecture series that took place between 1943 and 1945 in the Terezín Ghetto. Utitz shortly describes the structure and content of the lectures.
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…
1945-05-14 | Julius Ludolph | Melk concentration camp
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Hermann Hofstädt describes his arrival from Mauthausen to the Melk concentration camp in April 1944. He focuses on the harsh living conditions in the camp, the torture of its inmates, and the role of camp commander Julius Ludolph and other SS men.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
The unknown author describes the census on November 11th, 1943, on the Terezín Ghetto inmates in the Bohušovice Basin, conducted due to the rising number of escaped prisoners. The author recalls the endless hours of standing and waiting in the cold…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Short report by Paul Heller on Jaworzno, a sub-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Heller describes the harsh living conditions in the camp, forced labor, and the situation of the inmates. He also focuses on the names of the main perpetrators and the SS men…
