The safety repressive authorities of Nazi Germany often introduced euphemistic expressions to cover the true nature of their approach to the population in the controlled areas. One of such terms, in addition to final solution of the Jewish question or evacuation, was also the innocent-sounding phrase of special treatment, in German Sonderbehandlung. If we asked […]
Historical articles
The life stories of two executed…
Jiri Langer (1916 – 1945) After his childhood spent in Brandys nad Labem Jiri trained for an electrical engineer and in 1934 he obtained his certificate of apprenticeship. In the second half of the 30s he started a two-year full-time service. He first worked as a telephone operator of Artillery Regiment No. 51 and immediately […]
Life story of Dagmar Lieblova
The life story of Mrs. Dagmar begins in 1929, when the Fantls cheered over the new born baby girl Dagmar in Kutna Hora. About three years later a younger baby girl Rita made the family complete. Father was a doctor with a surgery right on the ground floor of the Fantls’ house. Mother’s parents also […]
SS farm in the Terezin ghetto
“Agriculture” or Landwirtschaft was part of the Economic Department of the ghetto administration. Its beginnings were difficult because basically everything that is needed in agriculture was missing. At the same time, prisoners assigned to work here were mostly untrained and often came from the cities; some of them had never held a hoe or other […]
