Virtual Collection Terezin

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Terezín/Theresienstadt
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- Židovské muzeum v Praze
- COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/T
- Czech, German, English
- Updated 5 years ago
The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse range of maps, plans and drawings of the ghetto, the surrounding area, the housing blocks and buildings, various sketches of the facilities and equipment, as well as notices. The collection a...

5 child items
Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn45433
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of postwar commemorative medals and posters, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Ursula Cohn, later Lichtenstein, and her family, who were deported from Germany to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, and Herbert Lichtenstein, who was deported from Germany to multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, during the Holocaust, and to their postwar experiences in displaced persons camps and the United States.

8 child items
Hal and Robyn Klein collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49667
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of an unused Star of David patch, three Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp parcel stamps, and a letter relating to the history of the Holocaust in German occupied Czechoslovakia and Netherlands.

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Walter and Jean Rappaport collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49835
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
8 child items
Edith and George Lauer collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49841
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of scrip from Theresienstadt relating to the experiences of George Lauer as a prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. The collection also includes three postcards from Liselotte Schulz (cousin of Edith Lauer) and Alfred and Anette Kornfeld (parents of Edith Lauer) while they were imprisoned at Theresienstadt.

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Aaron Rauner family collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49917
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of four pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia, a handwritten prayerbook, and a Haggadah created in Gurs internment camp in France relating to the experiences of Wolfgang Rauner and his family after the Holocaust.

5 child items
Tillman Neuner collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502141
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection contains 14 pieces of scrip and a stamp from Theresienstadt.

15 child items
Elizabeth Margosches family collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn520035
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of artifacts, design artwork, buttons, coins, pencils, sewing materials, wallets, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, books and other printed materials, and immigration, restitution, and subject files relating to the experiences of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United States, and Brazil before, during, and after the Holocaust.

51 child items
Eric Gutsmuth collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521772
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
Consists of documents, leaflets, newspapers, Łódź, Theresienstadt and Westerbork ghetto and camp scrip, a diary, and philatelic material either documenting the Gutsmuth family prior to the War, their emigration, their being in hiding in the Netherlands or being imprisoned in Theresienstadt; or purchased by Eric Gutsmuth's father. Included are anti-Semitic propaganda and Dutch resistance leaflets.

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Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522404
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard relating to the experiences of Ursula Lenneberg and her family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and of photographs relating to the family of her stepfather, Siegmund Bruenell, in prewar Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust.

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Elizabeth Trausel family collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn68674
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
The collection consists of documents, scrip, and a Star of David badge that relating to the experience of Elisabeth Trausel in Prague and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp and her father Josef, and their family in Prague during the Holocaust.

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Hana Vosatka collection
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn79192
- English
- Updated 6 months ago
Hana Vosatka collection consists of photographs of Hana before and after her internment in Theresienstadt, a photograph of her family's memorial, a postcard from Pavel Vosatka (Paul Dixon) to his mother in Theresienstadt, and worker identification cards, ration cards, passes, scrip, and medical records documenting Hana's internment and work activities at Theresienstadt.

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Terezin Research Guide files from Terezin Memorial
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- vc-tm
- English
- Updated 9 years ago
The files from the Terezin Memorial picked by EHRI to be part of the Terezin Research Guide

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Files of Beit Terezin
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- Beit Theresienstadt
- wp2-bt
- English
- Updated 9 years ago
Files and Documents compiled by Beit Terezin and edited by EHRI to be part of the Terezin Research Guide.

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Two postcards relating to deportation to Theresienstadt
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500344
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Includes two postcards from the Ticho family, informing Albert Steiner of their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 with an accompanying letter from Kurt Thomas (born Kurt Ticho) explaining context of postcards.
Documents relating to a Danish survivor of Theresienstadt
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500729
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Photocopied press release and news clipping, concerning Mrs. Blima Itzkowitz of Copenhagen, on the occasion of her 90th birthday in 1950. First item is from Danish Information Office in New York, lauding Mrs. Itzkowitz for her life as well as her fortitude during deportation to Theresienstadt, and accompanying news clipping is from unidentified publication in Danish.
Bendix Landau memoirs
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn501270
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.
"Wir Fahren aus Theresienstadt; we are leaving Theresienstadt, 1945"
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn501715
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Collection describes a train scene when inmates were being transported to Auschwitz.
Postcards from Theresienstadt
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502018
- English
- 1941-1944
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Contains nine thank-you cards for packages from family members in Theresienstadt.
Out of the Hell of Minsk into the 'Paradise' of Theresienstadt Aus der Hölle Minsk in der 'Paradies' Theresiendstadt
1. Virtual Collection Terezin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503406
- English
- 1957
- folder 1
- Updated 6 months ago
Includes a copy of a German-language printed version of "Aus der Hölle Minsk in der 'Paradies' Theresiendstadt" by Dr. Karl Loewenstein, accompanied by an undated English translation ("Out of the Hell of Minsk into the 'Paradise' of Theresienstadt") completed by Bernard Ahrend. The article is Loewenstein's account of events in Theresienstadt during his imprisonment. Among the things described are the deportation of Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the camp, the role of the SS in the camp administration, the "self administration" of the Jewish elders, the treatment of chi...