“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 […]
Historical articles
Sheep from Lidice in Terezin – fact or myth?
The Terezin historiography has already had to deal with many inadvertently spread myths, one of them being the question of the true origin of the flock of sheep in Terezin. So far most visitors to the former ghetto have received information that the sheep reared in the ghetto came from the destroyed village of Lidice, […]
They were here before us…
Joseph Eduard Adolf Spier (1900 – 1978) Jo Spier was a famous Dutch artist, author of humorous illustrations and caricatures depicting everyday life before the WWII. He worked for the De Telegraaf newspapers. At the time when Jews were already persecuted in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, the Spier’s family was helped through the acquaintance with Anton […]
Jews from the Reich Commissariat Netherlands in the Terezin Ghetto
Curt announcement in daily order of 23rd April 1943 let the ghetto prisoners in Terezin know about the arrival of transport marked XXIV/1 with 295 people from Amsterdam on 22nd April 1943. Seven more transports gradually arrived until November 1944. The above mentioned eight transports were composed of nearly 5,000 people mostly interned in the […]
