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Book about tragic fates of Austrian Jews in Terezin coming out Source: CZECH NEWS AGENCY Date: October 12, 2005
PRAGUE, Oct 12 (CTK) - The next part of the Terezin Commemorative Book containing the fate of Austrian Jews who went through the former deportation camp at Terezin ((Theresienstadt), north Bohemia, is coming out in German these days.
The book describes the fate of 18,166 prisoners who were deported to Terezin directly from Austria or who came from Austria.
“It is a memorial to all who did not survive war atrocities,” Michal Frankl from the Terezin Initiative Institute told journalists today. Among the victims, there are, for instance, four sisters of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis, who later died in the concentration camp in Treblinka, Poland, distant relatives of John Kerry, an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. president, and Elise Richter, the first woman in Austria who defended her doctor’s thesis in Vienna in 1901 and who died in Terezin.
During World War Two, the former garrison town of Terezin served as a ghetto for European Jews from where regular transports were dispatched to extermination camps, mainly to Auschwitz, where most of the 155,000 Jews from the ghetto died.
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