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5 unusual facts about Theresienstadt concentration camp


Arizona Onstage Productions

This new version kept Krasa's original text and music, but added new material (written by one of Johnson's students) which tells the story of the piece's production in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Berlin-Grunewald station

The trains left mainly for the ghettos of Litzmannstadt and Warsaw, from 1942 directly for the Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps.

Hugo Egon Balder

Gerda Balder was a Jew who, together with her mother and her son from her first marriage, survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Joachim Gottschalk

When Gottschalk refused, Goebbels ordered Gottschalk's wife and child transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Tulln an der Donau

Siegfried Seidl (24 August 1911 - 4 February, 1947 in Vienna), convicted and hanged World War II criminal, commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.


Hans Juhl

Gestapo Juhl was responsible for arresting about half of the 481 Danish Jews, who were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, including the razzia on the attic in Gilleleje Church on the night between the 6th and the 7th October 1943, where 85 people were arrested.

Stuttgart North station

Between 1941 and 1945 the loading tracks of the inner North Station freight yard were used for the deportation of more than 2,200 Jews from all over Württemberg to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Riga and Izbica.

Táňa Fischerová

Her father, theatre director Jan Fischer (or Fišer), was imprisoned in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during the World War II.

Untererthal

In 1942, Jews from Untererthal were dorported to the Izbica Ghetto on April 22 and to the Concentration Camp in Theresienstadt in September.


see also

Roy Kift

Holocaust play on Wilhelm Furtwängler and his former colleagues in the Theresienstadt concentration camp