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, 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.
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…