This article lists some notable people who were imprisoned at Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Notable prisoners who died at the camp edit
- Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud (died 29 September 1942)
- Alice Archenhold and Hilde Archenhold, wife and daughter of astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold[1]
- Eugen Burg, German film actor (died 17 April 1944)
- Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, editor of the conservative Süddeutsche Monatshefte (died 19 October 1942)
- Ludwig Chodziesner, German lawyer and father of poet Gertrud Kolmar (died February 1943)
- Ludwig Czech, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party in pre-war Czechoslovakia and former Czechoslovak minister of Social Care, Public Affairs and Public Health (died 20 August 1942)
- Robert Desnos, French Surrealist poet (died 8 June 1945)
- Oskar Fischer, physician (died of a heart attack on 28 February 1942)
- Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, 1896 Olympics gold medallist (died 28 December 1942)[2]
- Gabriel Frankl (born in Pohořelice in 1861), father of Viktor Frankl (died 13 February 1943, from pneumonia and starvation).
- Gisela Januszewska, physician (died 2 March 1943)
- Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (died 6 March 1945)
- Emil Kolben, Czech industrialist (founder of ČKD), one of the founders of industrial use of electricity (died 3 September 1943)
- Clementine Krämer, writer and social worker (died 4 November 1942)
- Gretchen Metzger (née Guldmann), mother of Otto Metzger (died 28 February 1943)[3]
- Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar (died 20 October 1942)
- Margarethe "Trude" Neumann (born 1893), daughter of Theodor Herzl (died 1943)
- Auguste van Pels, German Jewish refugee who lived in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank. (It is believed that she died during an evacuation transport of prisoners from Raguhn, a subcamp of Buchenwald to Theresienstadt), (died April 1945)[4]
- Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, creator of Pick's theorem (died 26 July 1942 after two weeks' imprisonment)[5]
- Ludwig Pick, German pathologist after whom Niemann-Pick disease and Lubarsch-Pick syndrome are named (died 3 February 1944)
- Samuel Schallinger, Austrian businessman, co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna (died 1942)[6]
- Margarete Schiff, daughter of psychotherapist Josef Breuer (died 9 September 1942)[citation needed]
- Zikmund Schul, composer (died 2 June 1944)
- Amalie Seckbach (née Buch), a noted painter and sculptor (died 10 August 1944)[7]
- Mathilde Sussin, actress (died 2 August 1943)
- Alfred Tauber, Austrian and Slovak mathematician (died 26 July 1942)
- Ernestine Taube, mother of pianist/composer Artur Schnabel, remained in Vienna after the Anschluss and at the age of 83, in August 1942, was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died two months later.
- Josefine Winter, daughter of Helene and Rudolf Auspitz
Notable survivors edit
- H. G. Adler, German-speaking writer and scholar
- Karel Ančerl, Czech conductor
- Inge Auerbacher, author of 6 books (including three memoirs about her experiences in Terezin and recovering after the war), and the subject of a new play, The Star on My Heart (November 2015)
- Yehuda Bacon, Israeli artist
- Leo Baeck, German rabbi
- Aviva Bar-On has lived in Israel since 1949. She is known to have sung in 2018, during a concert celebrating Independence Day in Jerusalem, one of the poet Ilse Weber's songs that was transmitted to her orally and her memory was the only record.[8]
- Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German playwright
- Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, German poet[9]
- Ellen Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach
- Bela Dekany, Hungarian Jewish-born renowned British violinist and leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist who invented anti-gonorrhoea drug Protargol
- Kurt Epstein, Czech Olympic water polo competitor
- Emil František Burian, Czech communist playwright, actor, composer and writer
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychologist
- Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor
- Petr Ginz, Czech child prodigy writer, died in Auschwitz in 1944
- Richard Glazar and Karel Unger, they were subsequently transferred to Treblinka, from which they ultimately escaped
- Michael Gruenbaum, writer
- Alena Hájková, Czech historian and resistance fighter
- Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech pianist; the focus of the documentary The Lady in Number 6. Died at 110 years old on 23 February 2014, oldest known survivor of the Holocaust.[10]
- Fredy Hirsch, deputy leader of the children at Theresienstadt, deported 8 September 1943 to Auschwitz and died 8 March 1944
- Milada Horáková, Czech politician
- Berthold Jeiteles, scientist, Talmudic scholar, and descendant of notable Prague family[11]
- Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist
- Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician of Slovak origin
- Gidon Lev, Czech-born Israeli TikTok star and Holocaust educator
- Arnošt Lustig, Czech novelist
- Paul Mahrer, professional soccer player (died 1984)
- Ferdinand Münz (1888-1969), chemist. The inventor of EDTA.
- Oskar Neumann, Czech lawyer and former president of the Slovak Jewish Council[12]
- Arnošt Reiser, professor of chemistry, author and inventor[13]
- Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichordist
- Jo Spier, illustrator
- Peter Spier, Author and illustrator of children's books
- Sam Swaap, Dutch violinist and conductor
- Emil Utitz, German-language academic
- Ronald Waterman[14]
- Ela Weissberger, the Cat in Brundibár (performed in schools around the world in memory of the children who did not survive)
References edit
- ^ Herrmann D.B. (2014). "Archenhold, Friedrich Simon". In Hockey T.; et al. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York, NY: Springer. Bibcode:2014bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7. ISBN 978-1-4419-9917-7. S2CID 242158697.; Herrmann, Dieter B. (2014). "Archenhold, Friedrich Simon". Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. pp. 96–97. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_66. ISBN 978-1-4419-9916-0.
- ^ "Jews in Sports: Jewish Olympic Medalists". Jewish Virtual Library.
- ^ "Gretchen Metzger". Stolpersteine in Nuremberg (in German). Geschichte Für Alle e.V. - Institut für Regionalgeschichte. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "Auguste van Pels". anne frank house. Anne Frank Stichting. 2018-09-25.
- ^ O'Connor, JJ & Robertson, EF (August 2005). "Georg Alexander Pick". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Scotland: University of St Andrews. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (7 March 2002). "Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews". The New York Times.
- ^ Pnina Rosenberg. "Amalie Seckbach (1870–1944) Biography". Learning about the Holocaust through Art.
- ^ Flynn, Meagan (April 17, 2018). "How thousands of songs composed in concentration camps are finding new life". The Washington Post. Washington. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ "Guide to the Papers of Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss". Leo Baeck Institute. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ Mark Memmott (24 February 2014). "Oldest-Known Holocaust Survivor Dies; Pianist was 110". NPR. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Guide to the Papers of Berthold Jeiteles". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Jewish Leaders in Czechoslovakia Found Alive, 'Stolyner Rebbe' Murdered by Nazis". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 27 May 1945.
- ^ "Arnošt Reiser: Survivor, Émigré, Author, Groundbreaking Chemist". Poly. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ Visser, Ellen de (2021-05-03). "Ronald Waterman spreekt na tientallen jaren toch over de oorlog: 'Ik moet getuigen omwille van alle mensen die zijn omgekomen'". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-05-04.