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