Category:Theresienstadt (subject)

Theresienstadt / Terezin (see Holocaust Children Studies)

• Intro

• Nazi Propaganda Documentary

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.

Art

• The artist who gave the children of the Holocaust art lessons (3 min)

Music

• See Brundibar

Auschwitz

• See Czech Family Camp 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

• Petr Ginz (M / Czechia, 1928-1944), Holocaust victim - Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Vedem
• Ivan Polak (M / Czechia, 1929-1945) - Editor-in-chief of the magazine Kamarad.

Brundibar performers

See Brundibar

• Honza Treichlinger (M / Czechia, 1929-1944), Holocaust victim

• Greta Klingsberg (F / Austria, 1929)
• Zdeněk Ornest / Zdeněk Ohrenstein (M / Czechia, 1929-1990)
• Ela Weissberger (F / Czechia, 1930-2018)

Deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz (and other camps)

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

• Leo Luster (Austria, 1927-2017)
• Zuzana Růžičková (Czechia, 1927-2017) -- then <Bergen-Belsen>

• George Brady (1928)
• Felix Weinberg (Czechia, 1928-2012) -- then <Buchenwald>

• Yehuda Bacon (Czechia, 1929)
• Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012)
• Paul Kling (1929-2005)
• Greta Klingsberg (1929)
• Zdeněk Ohrenstein (1929-1990) -- then <Dachau>
• Helga Weiss / Helga Hošková-Weissová (Czechia, 1929) -- then other camps

• Michal Kraus (Czechia, 1930)
• Helga Pollak-Kinsky (Austria, 1930) -- back to Theresienstadt

• Ruth Klüger (Austria, 1931)

• Rene & Renate Guttmann (Czechia, 1937)

Danish Children liberated on April 15, 1945

• Marcus Choleva (M / Denmark, 1933), Holocaust survivor
• Steen Metz (M / Denmark, 1935), Holocaust survivor
• Jytte Bornstein (F / Denmark, 1936), Holocaust survivor

Liberated at the camp on May 8, 1945

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

• Peter Spier (Netherlands, 1927)
• Věra Weislitzová (1927)

• Ernst Grube (1929)

• Michael Gruenbaum (Czechia, 1930) -- <Memoirs>
• Ela Weissberger (Czechia, 1930)

• Zuzana Justman (1931)
• Ivan Klíma (Czechia, 1931)
• Pavel Weiner (Czechia, 1931-2010) -- <Diaries>

• Ruth Gabriele Silten (F / Germany, Netherlands, 1933)

• Inge Auerbacher (F / Germany, 1934) -- <Memoirs>

• Peter Daniels / Peter Berlowitz (M / Germany, 1936)

• Zdenka Husserl (F / Czechia, 1939)

• Avigdor Cohnheim (M / Germany, 1941)
• Jona Spiegel / Jackie Young (M / Austria, 1941)

• Bela Rosenthal (F / Germany, 1942)

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

• Wolf Himmelfarb (Poland, 1927)
• Abraham Malnik (Poland, 1927)
• Magda Rein (Hungary, 1927)

• Arek Hersh (Poland, 1928) [from Auschwitz]

• Ben Helfgott (1929) [from Buchenwald]
• Simcha Lieberman (Poland, 1929-2009)

• Henri Rozen-Rechels (M / Poland, 1933) [from Buchenwald)

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