Documents found: 33

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    Eduard de Wind | Auschwitz
    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…
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    1945 | Poland
    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.
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    1945-08 | Terezín Ghetto
    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…
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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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    1945-08-12 | Teplá
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Brief statement by Georg Feyl, provisor of the Teplá abbey monastery, who claimed to know very little about the circumstances of the death march and mass killing in the city of Teplá.
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    1945-08-12 | Teplá
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Brief report by Josef Winter, a worker at the estate in the city of Teplá. He recalls several prisoner trains that passed through the city of Teplá in March. Winter describes a group of prisoners who marched through Teplá and were tortured by the SS…
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    1945-04-23 | Wehrmacht | Teplá
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
    Brief report by Albert Jaeger, a worker at the estate in the city of Teplá. Jaeger describes a group of prisoners led by the SS that marched through the city.
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    Terezín Ghetto
    Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín collection, inv. no 343. Original in German.
    Short text, written in a literary, emotional style. Otto Kalwo describes the process of deportation from the Terezín Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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    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.
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    Jaworzno
    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…