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Established as a ghetto and transit camp in 1941, Theresienstadt was presented as a model Jewish settlement for propaganda purposes. Despite congestion, hunger and forced labor, educational and cultural activities abounded. 35,440 Jews were murdered in the ghetto and 88,000 more were deported.
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Artist, graphic designer and Yad Vashem guide Liz Elsby presents the work "SS Dog", created in the Theresienstadt ghetto by Leo Haas, and demonstrates how it can be used as an educational tool.
US Astronaut Andrew "Drew" Feustel commemorated Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day with a video message sent from the International Space Station. Feustel flew to space on 21 March 2018, carrying a facsimile of Petr Ginz's "Moon Landscape", drawn in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
"We organized groups of young people in the barracks, taught Hebrew, held debates about Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine)… Amongst ourselves, we counselors said that coming to Theresienstadt and educating people about kibbutz life and Zionism was kind of Utopian, but we continued nonetheless. We used the same educational methods in Theresienstadt that we used when we were free."
Dov Hershkowitz, The Theresienstadt Ghetto – from the testimony collection Atem Edai (You Are My Witnesses).
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From the Yad Vashem Art Collection
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Malva Schalek (Malvína Schalková)
(1894 - 1971)
During his internment in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Karlínský painted landscapes and portraits, in particular those of members of the Ältestenrat
(1911 - 1996)
During the three years he was interned in Theresienstadt, Lukáš immortalized the inmates, focusing on portraits of actors and performing artists
During the fourteen months of his internment in the ghetto, Müller created some 500 drawings
(1902 - 1944)
During his internment in Theresienstadt, Plaček drew hundreds of caricatures of literary and cultural figures
(1897 - 1944)
In addition to documenting daily life in the ghetto, Fleischmann painted portraits in confident and concise lines, providing a critical and ironic view of ghetto functionaries
(1889 - 1943)
During his internment in Theresienstadt, which lasted less than two months, Schwarzschild drew a number of portraits and several drawings depicting life in the ghetto
Digital Collections
The Holocaust (Shoah) Deportation Database reconstructs the transports that took place during the Holocaust from territories of the Third Reich, from countries under German occupation, from the Axis states and from the satellite states.
Cutting-edge searching tools facilitate the exploration of thousands of artworks that are now accessible to both researchers and the general public on the Art Collection Database.
Letters
14 May 1944
"I'm leaving today – wait for mail." Rosa Feier née Fischer wrote these words on a scrap of paper before she was deported together with her 9-year-old son Fritz from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz.
From the Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
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