Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Brief report by Erich Nasch, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Nasch describes the selection process in the Auschwitz concentration camp and the specific case of three Czech prisoners who managed to leave the camp in a…
1945-10-26 | Erich Schön (later name Kulka) | Prague
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Erich Schön (later called Kulka), a Czech-Israeli writer and historian, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. In 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo and was later imprisoned in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Letter from Berthold Burg to Hugo Glaser describing the fate and death of Burg’s fellow prisoner Max, who was shot in the Fürstengrube labor camp by the camp commander. The letter became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original is in German. Protocol is a Czech translation.
Testimony of Zeev Scheck, initiator of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Scheck describes the situation of children in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the role of Egon Redlich and Fredy Hirsch in the educational system of the ghetto, which he…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Heda Grabová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Grabová describes the cultural life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. As an opera singer she was involved in many operas and musical plays which took place in…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Herta Bondyová describing in a literary way what followed after her deportation from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen. She tells emotionally the stories of her fellow prisoners and points out the harsh living conditions in the camp.
Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Collection, inv. no 343. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Edita Ornsteinová, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Ornsteinová describes the history of Theresienstadt from its beginning to the liberation of the ghetto by the Red Army. The core of her testimony revolves…
1945-08-16 | Karel Abeles (later name Brožík) | Prague
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in Czech.
Testimony of Karel Abeles (later name Brožík), which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Abeles describes being forced to leave his hometown Teplice in the Czechoslovak borderland in the fall of 1938. His family moved to Prague,…
Jewish Museum in Prague, Documents of Persecution, inv. no 80. Original in German.
Testimony of Walter Löbner, which became a part of the “documentation campaign” in Prague. Löbner was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1939 for his antifascist views and was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Dora…
1945-07-03 | National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)
Hungarian Jewish Archives, DEGOB, Protocol no. 651. Original in Hungarian.
Testimony of 16-year-old K. H. on the deportation of his family to Kamenets-Podolsk in the summer of 1941, hiding in Kőrösmező/Yasina, finding shelter in a Jewish orphans’ home in Budapest, his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, his experiences in…
