Joseph and Mary Meisel: personal papers 1910-1972

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...

Meth, Helene

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Meisel, Mary. b 1910

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Peris, Max

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Meth, Heinrich

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Meisel - Joseph - b 1907

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Jean Joseph (Jozef) Meisel of Czechoslovak nationality was born in Vienna in 1907. After his school education in Vienna he moved to Metz in 1923. In 1929 he went to Paris to work as an electrical engineer. Joseph Meisel volunteered to serve in the Czech Forces in 1939. He was stationed at the Czechoslovak Soldiers' Camp at Sutton Park in 1940 and later Newmarket. He got married to Marianne (Mary) Meth (born in Vienna in 1910) in Newmarket in December 1940. She was a trained dressmak...

Peris, Else. d 1954

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