Metadata: Theresienstadt Tatsachenbericht: Volume 7
Record with images
- Title:
- Theresienstadt Tatsachenbericht: Volume 7
- Reference number:
- 1346/1/1/8
- Collection:
- Philipp Manes collection
- Date:
- 1944
- Extent:
- 47 pages
- Scope/content:
- Chapter 24: Thoughts about Jewish learning. Dr Leo Baeck should have been the head of an institution devoted to teach Jewish affairs. There follow some passages on bureaucracy at Theresienstadt. It takes weeks to get a coupon for a simple shoe repair. Some more comments on the lecture series and those attending appear on pp. 548-551, and then the chapter finishes on a happy note. It is the beginning of July, temperatures are rising and Manes rejoices seeing beautiful young people looking forward to a better future. "Our march through the desert will not last 40 years". Chapter 25: (p. 554ff) This is a factual report on administration and economics in Theresienstadt. Manes makes the point, that the ghetto has a right to demand productive work from everyone who is capable of it. Under the heading "Economics Department" he reproduces a report by an engineer (Mr Stahl from Munich) describing food production, distribution and consumption in detail (target 1600 calories per head a day for working people). The second part of chapter 25 contains various passages on life in Theresienstadt - hygiene, the always acute problem of lice, some brief periods of relaxation before the compulsory "Good Night" time and at the end of the chapter one finds a description of the simple funeral of another ”dear comrade" (Marc Beres). Chapter 26: At the beginning Manes is full of admiration for a clever young roofer from Berlin who manages to transform the lecture hall in a few days. He then talks about some of the participants in the lecture series who lent him special support. The 13th July (p. 578) is the birthday of his wife who has been ill and in pain for months and he spends the day in the hospital. Manes describes the room she is in and writes about her illness and one senses his anxiety for her. The rest of chapter 26 - and of this volume (pp. 581-592) is devoted to a number of events in the lecture series - from an amusing May Day celebration to Lessing's "Jews", the Ur-Faust and Cyrano de Bergerac.
- Language:
- German
- Subject keyword:
- Diaries
- Personal narratives
- Terezin (ghetto)
- Personal name keyword:
- Baeck, Leo
- Manes, Philipp
- Geographical keyword:
- Third Reich [1933-1945]
- Type of material:
- Documents
- Image copyright:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
