Category:Theresienstadt (subject)

Theresienstadt

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. In total, we can say that of the 15,000 children who lived at Theresienstadt only 10-15% survived.

Children of Theresienstadt

Brundibar performers

• 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)

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 (Germany, Netherlands, 1933), Holocaust survivor

• 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]