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…
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, 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…
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. 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.
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…
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…
