Informations bulletin

Identifier
irn502891
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.036
  • RG-03.001.01
Dates
1 Jan 1959 - 31 Dec 1959
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The news release was published by the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia in Mar 1959. A photocopy of the release was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Isaac Goodfriend on 17 Apr. 1985.

Scope and Content

Consists of a copy of a news release entitled "Informations Bulletin" published by Rat der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Bömen und Mären zu Prag in March 1959. The release describes a variety of Holocaust remembrance events concerning the Jewry of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are the killing of thousands of Czechoslovakian Jews in the gas chamber at Birkenau, the treatment of children and the development of children's art in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto, the contribution of research and writing by rabbis and scholars to promote Holocaust remembrance, and the production of dramas and art exhibitions focusing on the suffering of the Czechoslovakian Jews during World War II.

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Genre

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