Category:Theresienstadt (subject)

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Theresienstadt / Terezin (see Holocaust Children Studies)


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Overview

The ghetto was established by the transportation of Czech Jews in November 1941. The first German and Austrian Jews arrived in June 1942; Dutch and Danish Jews came at the beginning in 1943, and prisoners of a wide variety of nationalities were sent to Theresienstadt in the last months of the war. About 33,000 people died at Theresienstadt, mostly from malnutrition and disease. More than 88,000 people were held there for months or years before being deported to extermination camps and other killing sites. Including 4,000 of the deportees who survived, the total number of survivors was around 23,000.

The Children

More than 15,000 children lived at Theresienstadt. It is often repeated that only "125" children survived, but this number refers to the 6,588 children who were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

When the camp was liberated on May 8, 1945, the number of child survivors was 1,633 (half of them were inmates of the camp, the others had arrived only recently from other camps). "125" (between 100 and 150) additional children survived among the 6,588 children who had been deported to Auschwitz (their number increases to at least 218, if adolescents are also included). In total, we can say that of the 15,000 children who lived at Theresienstadt only 10-15% survived.

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Music

Auschwitz

Most Jews from Thresienstadt were deported and perished in Auschwitz. For some time in 1943-44, there was a "Family camp" in ABirkenau were Deportees from Theresienstadt were allowed to live in relatively better conditions. The Family Camp was liquidated in the Summer 1944 after the visit of the Red Cross at Theresienstadt.

Children of Theresienstadt

Victims

Brundibar performers

See Brundibar

Deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz (and other camps)

Only 100-150 among the 6,588 children deported to Auschwitz survived.

Danish Children liberated on April 15, 1945

Liberated at the camp on May 8, 1945

Around 800 children survived at Theresienstadt (they were not deported).

Late Arrivals (from other camps)

Around 800 children (mostly adolescents) arrived at Theresienstadt from other camps during the last days of the war.

Liberated at Theresienstad on May 8, 1945

  • Egon Lánský / Egon Löwy (Slovakia, 1934-2013) [from Auschwitz]

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