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Edition of Terezín Memorial Books

The aim of the edition of Terezín Memorial Books is to record names and fates of all Terezín prisoners and to keep the memory of meaninglessly wasted human lives. Publishing of the memorial books has become possible thanks the database where data for more than 150 thousand Terezín prisoners are being collected. Entries for tens of thousand deported Jews document the extent and perversity of the final solution of the Jewish question and stand for a symbolical gravestone of people whose only guilt was their Jewish origin.

Miroslav Kárný, kol.: Terezínská pamětní kniha. Židovské oběti nacistických deportací z Čech a Moravy 1941 - 1945, 2. sv., Nadace Terezínská iniciativa - Melantrich, Praha 1995 (Terezín Memorial Book. Jewish Victims of Nazi Deportations from Bohemia and Moravia 1941 - 1945)

Two volumes of this memorial book contain names and fates of more than 80 thousand Jews deported in time of Nazi occupation from Bohemia and Moravia to Terezín, Lodz (Litzmannstadt) and other concentration camps. Each deportation is given a separate chapter of the book. The deportations (chapters) are sorted in chronological order. Entry of each prisoner reproduces last and first name(s), date of birth and other information, which differs according to individual fates: deportation from Terezín, date and place of death, or a liberation place. The memorial book opens with an introductory word of the President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel, historical overview of the genocide of Czech Jews and of history of Terezín, written by Miroslav Kárný, and list of all transports to and from Terezín and other transports from Prague and Brno to Lodz, Auschwitz, Minsk and Ujazdow.

Guide to the Terezín Memorial Book, Nadace Terezínská iniciativa - Melantrich, Praha 1995

Translation of the introductory chapters enables all who don't understand Czech to work with the Terezín Memorial Book. At the same time it can be used as a study in the history of Terezín and of the final solution in Bohemia and Moravia.

Miroslav Kárný, Michal Frankl, kol.: Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch. Die Opfer der Judentransporte aus Deutschland 1942 - 1945, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Academia, Praha 2000 (Terezín Memorial Book. The Victims of Jewish deportations from Germany to Terezín 1942 - 1945)

The last volume of the edition of Terezín Memorial Books covers names and fates of more than 42 thousand Jews deported to Terezín from the territory of Germany in its boundaries before 1938 and from also Danzig. Each of German deportation areas makes its own chapter, from the largest one - Berlin with more than 15 thousand deported people - to the smallest on - Danzig with 117 deportees to Terezín. The memorial book includes an introductory word of President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel, historical overview of the history of Terezín and place of German prisoners in the ghetto community, written by Miroslav Kárný, introductions for each of the deportation areas and list of all transports to and from Terezín. More in German or in Czech...

Theresienstadter Gedenkbuch. Österreichische Jüdinnen und Juden in Theresienstadt 1942-1945, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes , Praha 2005 (Terezín Memorial Book. Austrian Jewesses and Jews in Terezín Ghetto, 1942-1945)

On June 21, 1942, the first train arrived from Vienna to the Terezín Ghetto. Out of thousand deported just 21 people were younger than sixty. In total, 15 265 Austrian Jews were deported from Austria to Terezín and just 1318 of them have survived. Their names and fates are documented in the new volume of the series of Terezín Memorial Books.

Terezín Studies and Documents

Scientific yearbook of the Terezín Initiative Institute published since 1994 in German and since 1996 in Czech version. More, lists of articles...

New edition of historical studies

Helena Petrův: Židé v legislativě Protektorátu Čechy a Morava, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Sefer, Praha 2000 (Jews in Legislation of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia) - SELLOUT

Jiří Křesťan, Alexandra Blodigová, Jaroslav Bubeník: Židovské spolky v českých zemích v letech 1918-1948, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Sefer, Praha 2001 (Jewish Associations in the Czech Lands, 1918-1948)

Židovské zlato, ostatní drahé kovy, drahé kameny a předměty z nich v českých zemích 1939-1945. Protiprávní zásahy do majetkových práv, jejich rozsah a následné osudy tohoto majetku. Zpráva expertního týmu zřízeného Smíšenou pracovní komisí na základě usnesení vlády České republiky č. 773 ze dne 25. 11. 1998 , Sefer - Institut Terezínské iniciativy , Praha 2001 [Jewish Gold and other Precious Metals, Precious Stones, and Objects made of such Materials -- Situation in the Czech Lands in the Years 1939 to 1945. Unlawful Infringement of Property Rights and its Scope; Subsequent Fate of the Jewish Assets affected by this Infringement. Report by a Team of Experts Created by the Joint Task Force based on Decision No. 773 of the Czech Government of November 25, 1998]

Jewish Gold and other Precious Metals, Precious Stones, and Objects made of such Materials - Situation in the Czech Lands in the Years 1939 to 1945. Unlawful Infringement of Property Rights and its Scope; Subsequent Fate of the Jewish Assets affected by this Infringement. Report by a Team of Experts Created by the Joint Task Force based on Decision No. 773 of the Czech Government of November 25, 1998, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Sefer, Praha 2001.

Lucie Ondřichová: Příběh Fredyho Hirsche, Institut Terezínské iniciativy - Sefer, Praha 2001. (The Story of Fredy Hirsch)

Other books

Toman Brod, Miroslav Kárný, Margita Kárný: Terezínský rodinný tábor v Osvětimi-Birkenau, Nadace Terezínská iniciativa - Melantrich, Praha 1994 (Terezín Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau)

Contributions to the international conference about the Terezín family camp, which took place in Prague on March 7. - 8., 1994 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of murder of 3792 prisoners of this camp in gas chambers of Auschwitz. List of contributions.

Deník Otty Wolfa, 1942 - 1945, Nadace Terezínská iniciativa - Sefer, Praha 1997 (Diary of Otto Wolf, 1942 - 1945)

In 1942 the family Wolf from Tršice, small village near of the city of Olomouc (Olmütz) decided not to obey a call to transport to Terezín. Most of the following three years Otto Wolf, 15 years old in 1942, was hiding with his father, mother and sister at different places in forest. During the whole time he covered all the events and experiences in his diary, one of a few saved documents of this sort. After almost three years of hiding Otto Wolf was caught in April 1945 by the Nazis and killed. The selected parts of the book on www.holocaust.cz.

Ferdinand Koudelka: Sociologický průzkum znalostí středoškoláků o Terezíně a holocaustu, Institut Terezínské iniciativy, Praha 1998 (Sociological survey of knowledge of secondary schools students about Terezín and the Holocaust)

Sociological survey of attitudes to and knowledge about the Holocaust and Terezín ghetto conducted on a sample of more than 900 hundred students of different types of secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The survey analyzes also their attitudes to racism, antisemitism and extent of sympaties for the skinhead movement. Text of the survey (only in Czech).

Last Update: 10. 10. 2005
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