Rudolf, Philipp and Eva Manes: personal papers and correspondence 1915-1971

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

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On June 10, 1940, the Gestapo took control of Terezìn (Theresienstadt), a fortress, built in 1780-1790 in what is now the Czech Republic, and set up prison in the Small Fortress (Kleine Festung). By 24 November 1941, the Main Fortress (grosse Festung, ie the town Theresienstadt) was turned into a walled ghetto. The function of Theresienstadt was to provide a front for the extermination operation of Jews. To the outside it was presented by the Nazis as a model Jewish settlement, but in reality it...

Manes - family

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Manes, Philipp. 1875

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Philipp Manes was born in Neuwied in the Rhineland on Aug 1875. His family had lived in Neuwied for a long time, but his parents and he moved to Berlin via Luxembourg, when he was a boy of eleven. Manes became a fur trader. Until 1942 he lived in a small apartment in the centre of Berlin with his wife and his family. His four children all managed to leave Germany before the war broke out. In 1942, he was forced to work for a few months as a labourer in a Berlin factory. In July 1942...

Manes - Eva - d 2004

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Rudolf was born on 7 April 1906 in Berlin. He did his apprenticeship in the fur industry in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1929 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He visited his family twice but did not return to Germany after the National Socialists had come to power and never saw his parents again. Rudolf was interned as enemy alien in September 1939. Soon after he joined the Foreign Legion and served in Northern Africa. His unit was mainly involved in building roads on behalf of t...

Manes, Rudolf. b 1906

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