University of Southern California Shoah Foundation
What is today the
Deportations soon began. As early as October 1939, an experimental deportation plan moved a group of Moravian Jews to an area of
Beginning in 1942, most remaining Jews were sent to the Theresienstadt "model ghetto" (discussed by 2,193 interviewees in total, 704 of whom were born in
After liberation in 1945,
The testimony of Hanus Münz (interview code 6804, Czech) is an extremely rare example of a Czech survivor of Malyi Trostenets. Richard Glazar (interview code 8552, German) is one of only two survivors from the Czech lands of the Treblinka II death camp. Kurt Thomas (interview code 28104, English), who also gave an interview to the Shoah Foundation, is a Czech survivor of the Sobibór death camp. The testimony of Viktor Las (interview code 6809, Czech) is remarkable for his description of performing cleanup work after the notorious German massacre of the
The USC Shoah Foundation conducted 567 interviews in the
See also: Czechoslovakia, Germany
Selected Indexing Terms
"Aktion Albrecht 1" (September 1, 1939)
"Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt"
"Freizeitgestaltung"
"Munich Crisis" (March-September 1938)
Bar Kochba Student Association (Prague)
Benes, Edvard
Benesová, Hana
Birkenau boys
Brünnlitz (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp)
Czech and Slovak Legion
Czech resistance fighters
Czech resistance groups
Czechoslovakian units
deportation from Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Deutsche Partei
Edelstein, Jacob
Fritta, Bedrich
German annexation of Bohemia and Moravia (March 15, 1939)
German annexation of Sudetenland (October 1, 1938)
ghetto crematoria (Theresienstadt)
ghetto intake procedures (Theresienstadt)
ghetto latrines (Theresienstadt)
Jungfern Breschan (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp)
Krása , Hans
Lanik, Josef
Lidice (Czechoslovakia)
Masaryk, Tomas
Musy Transport
Narodni hnuti pracujici mladeze
Pankratz (Prague, Czechoslovakia: Prison)
Petschek Palace (Prague, Czechoslovakia : Prison)
Polish annexation of the Teschen region (October 1938)
Prag-Ha-Gibbor (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp)
PRAGUE 2 Nove Mesto-Karlovo namesti (Czechoslovakia : Prison)
Prague Uprising (May 5-9, 1945)
Rosin, Arnost
Schaechter , Rafael
Seidl, Siegfried
Sokol
Sudetendeutsche Partei
Svoboda, Ludvik
Teḥelet-Lavan
Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia : Ghetto)
Theresienstadt Familienlager
Theresienstadt ghetto beautification
Theresienstadt-Small Fortress (Czechoslovakia : Prison)
Vlajka
Vrba, Rudolf
Wachholz Trial (East Germany)
Zenkl, Petr
Zuckor, Otto
Selected Bibliography
Adler, H.G.. Theresienstadt 1941-1945. Das Antlitz eier Zwangsgemeinschaft, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005.
Bondy, Ruth. "Elder of the Jews": Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt, New York: Grove Press, 1989.
Dagan, Avigor (ed.). The Jews of Czechoslovakia: Historical Studies and Surveys, Vol. 3, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America; New York: Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, 1984.
Kárný, Miroslav. "Konecné řešení": Genocida českých židů v německé protektorátní politice, Prague: Academia, 1991.
Krejcová, Helena; Svobodová, Jana; and Hyndráková, Anna (eds.). Židé v Protektorátu: Hlášení židovské naboženské obce v roce 1942. Dokumenty, Prague: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny, 1997.
Rothkirchen, Livia. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.