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Alfred Hirsch (Hebrew: פרדי הירש; () 11 February 1916 – () 8 March 1944) was a German-Jewish athlete, sports teacher and Zionist youth movement leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Auschwitz.
Probably on 21 August, [d] the children and caregivers boarded a special train that arrived at Theresienstadt Ghetto three days later. [6] [23] [22] It is unclear whether the train was composed of freight cars, as was typically the case during the Holocaust, or passenger cars. [24]
Most of the children were murdered at Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. [38] [c] The commission that visited on June 23, 1944, included Maurice Rossel, a representative of the ICRC; E. Juel-Henningsen, the head physician at the Danish Ministry of Health; and Franz Hvass, the top civil servant at the Danish Foreign Ministry. [29]
Beit Terezin, exterior view, right the rotunda Ruth Bondy, co-founder of Beit Terezin, 2008. Beit Terezin or Beit Theresienstadt (German: Haus Theresienstadt) is a research and educational institution that opened in 1975 in Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud), a museum and a place of remembrance of the victims of Nazi Germany persecution at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
In A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944 – April 1945 (2011, ISBN 978-0-8101-2779-1), she returned to the experiences of children as an important source for contemporaneous accounts of Jewish life under Nazi persecution.
Gate of No Return [], a memorial at Praha–Bubny railway station commemorating the deportation of tens of thousands Jews via the station. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia resulted in the deportation, dispossession, and murder of most of the pre-World War II population of Jews in the Czech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.
The poem also inspired the Butterfly Project of the Holocaust Museum Houston, an exhibition where 1.5 million paper butterflies were created to symbolize the same number of children who were murdered in the Holocaust. [3] The Butterfly has inspired many works of art that remember the children of the Holocaust, including a song cycle and a play. [4]
Terezín: The Music 1941–44 is a 2-CD set with music written by inmates at the Terezín concentration camp during World War II.. The collection features music by Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, and Viktor Ullmann.