254
Porges were deported from Prague, Vienna and Germany to Theresienstadt,
then to other concentration camps.
To read more about Terezin/Theresienstadt and the concentration
camps, click on the following links :
| The
Genocide of the Czech Jews |
by Miroslav Karny |
| Beit
Theresienstadt |
at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud
was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt
who perished during the Nazi persecution.The official opening
was in 1975.The "Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association"
built this edifice through the initiative of the surviving
members of the Zionist Youth Movement and the "Hechalutz"
organization living in Israel. |
| An
Interview with a Survivor |
Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann |
| Theresienstadt
: An Overview |
Adapted from the Encyclopedia
of the Holocaust, a short overview of the camp. including
information on the first months, deportations, life in the
ghetto, the Red Cross visit, and epidemics. |
| Theresienstadt
: The "Model" Ghetto |
with photos |
| Theresienstadt
- Paradeisghetto |
by Chuck Ferree |
| A
visit to Terezin |
by Chuck Vadun, part of Web
Travel Review's Berlin/Prague story
"A light rain fell as I stood at the Martin Tours booth
on one corner of Prague's Old Town Square, waiting for the
tour bus to arrive to take me to Terezin." |
| I
Never Saw Another Butterfly |
Children's Drawings
and Poems from Terezín Concentration Camp, 1942-1944.
A Book Review by Amanda Kaufman, Cold Spring Harbor
High School, New York |
| Lecturers
in Ghetto Theresienstadt, "VIP" in the Ghettto |
Otto Porges and Elsa Bernstein
(née Porges) were among the 254 Porges deported to
Terezin. |
| A
location map of the concentration camps |
with access to
lists of KZ camps names. |
|
Deportation
to Theresienstadt
|
At the beginning of the German occupation - according
to the official statistics and according to the Nuremberg definition
- 118 310 Jews lived on the territory of the so-called Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia. According to the last official statistics
of 15 March 1945, there were only 3 030 -excluding Terezin and prisons
- i.e. a mere 2.56%.
In the deportation transports from Prague and Brno,
7 002 Jews were sent to Lodz, Minsk and Ujazdow of whom only 276
survived the deportation to Lodz, 13 to Minsk and 2 to Ujazdow.
The deportation transports to Terezin numbered
73 468 Jewish prisoners from the Protectorate territory. Of that
number, 6 152 died there and 6 875 were liberated. More than half
of those liberated - 3 654 - were Jews from mixed marriages who
were sent to Terezin only in 1945.
From Terezin 60 382 Jewish prisoners from the Protectorate
were deported to the East of whom only 3 097 survived the holocaust.
From the Czech border territory - "the Sudeten
region" - 611 Jews were jailed in Terezin; only 242 of them survived
the holocaust.
Between 1941 and 1945, 140.000 Jews were transported
to Terezin from all over Europe.
More than 33.000 died in Terezin; another 87.000 were sent from
Terezin to camps in Poland, mostly Auschwitz.
254 Porges were deported to the camp of Terezin (60 km North
of Prague). Only 11 survived
Most were transfered to other camps (Auschwitz/Osvetim, Riga, Dobria,
Treblinky, Zamosc, Maly Trostinec, Estonia Raasika, Lodz, ... ).
Special thanks to The Federation of Jewish Communities in
the Czech Republic who kept the individual cards of transport
to the KZ camp of Terezin (Czek) and kindly provived a copy of all
254 the records.
In November 2000, Beit Theresienstadt provided
a list of 227 Porges deported to Theresienstadt.
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Fully
available |
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Not
completed |
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Copies of transport
cards
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(not
available) |
| Name |
From |
Date
born |
Date
deport. |
Camp |
| Porges,
Gabriela |
München |
26/11/1866 |
24/07/1942 |
Theresienstadt |
| Porges,
George |
Hamburg |
28/05/1860 |
02/02/1942 |
Freitod |
| Porges,
Siegfried |
Hamburg |
16/10/1867 |
22/07/1942 |
Theresienstadt |
Source : Gedenkbuch
- Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen
Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945, Leo Baeck Institute,
NYC
| Name |
Address |
Nationality |
Place
born |
Date
born |
Camp |
| Porges,
Milan |
"Tanner",
16 rue Marcel Sembat Montreuil sous Bois |
|
Zilina
(Czek) |
12/03/1895 |
from Pithiviers to Auschwitz
convoi 4 |
| Porjes,
Alexandre |
"Tailor",
Paris |
|
Vienne |
10/04/1911 |
Auschwitz
convoi 6 |
| Porges,
Erwin |
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|
? |
16/07/1891 |
from Belgium to
Auschwitz
convoi 20 |
| Porges,
Hans |
31
rue du Roi de Sicile, Paris |
|
Vienna |
20/07/1907 |
from
Les Milles to Drancy
convoi 29 |
| Porges,
Marie |
31
rue du Roi de Sicile, Paris |
|
Budapest |
09/06/1909 |
from Pithiviers to Auschwitz
convoi 47 |
| Porges,
Lucienne |
31
rue du Roi de Sicile, Paris |
French |
Paris |
12/07/1940 |
from Pithiviers to Auschwitz
convoi 47 |
Source : Klarsfeld
documents (Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Paris)
For detailed reports (in French) on the above transports, click
here.
A new project
called "Letter to the stars - Students write history"
http://www.lettertothestars.at
contains the list of the 65.000 Austrian jews, killed by the nazis,
including 42 Porges names.
For detailed lists on the
above transports, click here.
Click
here to access the Spoliations page
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