The Shoah (1939–1945)
The family camp at Birkenau
sept. 1943·Theresienstadt
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Convoys leave Theresienstadt for a particular sector of Birkenau, where deportees keep their clothes and families and write postcards dated in advance; the sector is liquidated after a few months, in two waves.
Convoys departing from Theresienstadt arrive at Birkenau in a separate sector, where deportees from the Protectorate are kept together as families, with their own clothing and without selection upon arrival. This family camp serves as a reserve for a possible outside inspection. A barrack there houses the children, who receive clandestine instruction. After several months, the sectors are liquidated one by one.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Tchéquie
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.