Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Report : Paper : Printed : Ink : off-white, ; Ht: 8 1/2 in. x W: 14 in.

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Physical Condition

Good

Language

German

Notes

1 page. One-sided copy of a document intitled ''Die häufigsten Todesursachen in Theresienstadt''. The report indiques statistics about the most common causes of death in the ghetto-camp of Theresienstadt between 1941-12 and 1944-12. The diseases named on the document are: tuberculosis, pneumonia, enteritis, blood poisoning, tumors, intracranial hemorrhage, meningitis. Narrative: The Theresienstadt "camp-ghetto" existed between 1941-11-24 and 1945-05-09. It served the three following: a transit camp for Czech Jews, a ghetto-labour camp for certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews (based on their age, disability as a result of past military service, or domestic celebrity in the arts and culture), and a holding pen for Jews in the above-mentioned groups. It was expected that that poor internment conditions would hasten the deaths of many deportees, until the survivors could be deported to killing centers in the East.

Accession No.

2013X.09.04

Name Access

Barber, Anna

Places

Terezin, Theresienstadt, Czech Republic, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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