Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence 1945-1946

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Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence 1945-1946

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Wiener Library

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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...

Fraustaedter, Hans

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Fraustaedter, Berta. b 1869

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Fraustaedter, Kurt

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Oppenheim - Lotte - née Fraustaedter

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Berta Fraustaedter was born in 1869. According to the correspondence, her children Lotte, Kurt and Hans Fraustaedter had fled Nazi Germany. After the liberation of Terezin concentration camp Berta Fraustaedter moved to a Jewish retirement home in Berlin whilst awaiting approval for her emigration to her children in England. From the guide to the Lotte Oppenheim: personal correspondence, 1945-1946, (Wiener Library) ...