Theresien­stadt (Con­cen­tra­tion Camp)

Old picture of two women in profile leaning against each other.

Gertrud and Margarete Zuelzer

The Berlin sisters keep in touch when Gertrud is deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp after an escape attempt

Online Feature
2022

Portrait of Margot Friedländer

Margot Friedländer: Try to Make Your Life

Born in Berlin in 1921, she went into hiding in 1943, was captured in 1944 and deported to Theresienstadt, in German

Video Recording
9 Apr 2018

An elderly gentleman (Coco Schumann) sits in front of a screen, he looks into the camera. On the screen Coco Schumann can be seen at a concert, he is playing the guitar.

Obituary for Coco Schumann

Jazz musician, Berliner, member of the jazz band Ghetto Swingers founded in the concentration camp Theresienstadt

Blog
2018

Art and Culture in the Terezín Ghetto

The symposium explores the history of Theresienstadt, the “ghetto of exceptions,” from different angles. With lectores Wolfgang Benz, Anna Hájková and Hanno Loewy, in German

Video Recording
2 Mar 2014

A bag filled with several letters.

Failed Emigration

Even though Frieda Neuber had been baptized 60 years earlier, she was persecuted as a Jew and deported to Theresienstadt in 1942

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Varieté. Inmitten eines Hofes eine provisorisch beleuchtete Bühne und Artist*innen. Rundum herbeikommende Zuschauer*innen

Bedřich Fritta

Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

Exhibition
17 May to 29 Sep 2013 and 28 Feb to 4 May 2014

Varieté. Inmitten eines Hofes eine provisorisch beleuchtete Bühne und Artist*innen. Rundum herbeikommende Zuschauer*innen

Bedřich Fritta

Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Featuring many of the drawings from the exhibition

Exhibition Website
2013

Completed document with stamps.

Red Cross Letter to Emmy Warschauer

Marianne Simion’s mother was deported to Theresienstadt

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