In addition to lack of food, work exhaustion and mistreatment by the supervisory personnel, the inhuman conditions of imprisonment in Nazi repressive facilities also brought along dismal hygienic and medical care. To provide sick prisoners with at least the minimum of needed care, the official authorized doctors were helped by numerous doctors, medics and nurses […]
Historical articles
The Terezín Ghetto and the Fight against Insects
The Terezín ghetto was to serve merely as a stop for Jewish prisoners before their final liquidation in the East as planned by the Nazis. Yet, even this “stop” created conditions which contributed to the deaths of thousands of deportees. From the beginning, there were problems associated with the location and survival of huge amount […]
Evelina Merová – her life story
Evelina Merová was born on 25th December 1930 to an assimilated Jewish family of Ilse and Emil Landa (Father’s original surname being Löwy). She had a ten-year-older half-sister Lisa. The Landas lived in a modern three-bedroom apartment in Prague’s quarter Letná until 1939, when they had to move out. Father worked his way up to […]
Danish Jews in Terezín
First transport of Danish Jews with 83 people arrived in the Terezin ghetto on 5th October 1943. Within the next ten days their amount in the Terezín ghetto rose to more than 450, later reaching the final number of 466 persons. The position of Jews in Denmark before World War II was characterized by a […]
