Database of Holocaust Victims
The Terezín Initiative Institute attempts to document names and fates of all prisoners of the Terezín ghetto and of other victims of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" in Czech Lands and to use this data in order to assist commemoration and promote Holocaust education. The information gathered in the framework of this documentation project is made available for survivors, family members, but also to the public, to historians and in the frame of our educational projects to schools.
The first results of the documentations Project were the Terezín Memorial Books.
What does the database contain?
The databse contain the short data about all of the prisoners of Terezín Ghetto deported in from Czech Lands, Germany, Austria, Nederland, Denmark, Slovakia. You can find the data relating to the people thay came to Terezín with the death marches in the last months of the was (so called evacuation transports) and the information about the Jews deported from Czech Lands directly to Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Minsk and Ujazdow. The internal system contains the data of survivors, but though the Law on Protection of Personal Data we can not to publish them online.
What does the particular record in the database contain?
The record of every single person contains:
name, date of birth, transport to Terezín or any other camp or ghetto, fate (dead, liberated*, fate unknown*) or any other information: date and place of death, transport from Terezín, place of liberation* etc.
In many cases (mainly in Prague) we can find out the persons through the address of the las residence before the transport.
We add to the single records the authentic documents and photos of the Holocaust Victims in the frame of our extensively project Terezín Album.
Where can I find the Database of the Holocaust Victims?
The onlive version of the databse is available on the holocaust.cz websites.
As said there are just the data of the people they have not survived the Holocaust. If you are interested in the information about the Survivors, have any other questions or if you want to offer us you own materials (photos, documets, etc.) to add in the database, please contact us by e-mail: database@terezinstudies.cz.
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We would like to present a few highlights to our readers here. The complete list of new additions can be found in the PDF document.
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