JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen WOLF in Austria, Beit Therezin, and Aufbau #general
Candice Bradley and Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@...>
I sent my first message to JewishGen yesterday and already the
information I wrote on the WOLF family is incorrect. I learned today, through the assistance of an organization called Beit Theresienstadt (or Beit Therezin), that my great grandmother, Clara FUCHS WOLF, and her daughter, Flora HERTZKA, were not sent to Theresienstadt. I searched the JewishGen archives and do not believe that information on Beit Therezin has yet been posted. If I am posting redundant information, I apologize. However, I am amazed by the quick work of this organization and am posting information here for others who may wish to obtain a computer printout about relatives who were sent to Theresienstadt. BEIT THERESIENSTADT, Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud, Mobil Post Emek Hefer, 38935 Israel. Tel: + 972-6-369515 Fax: + 972-6-369611 E-Mail: bterezin@inter.net.il web site: http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin The Beit Thereseinstadt web page in English is at: http://www.cet.ac.il/terezin/ndx_e.htm The following description is >from their webpage: "Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished during the Nazi persecution. The corner stone was laid in 1969 and the official opening was in 1975. The "Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association" built this edifice through the initiative of the surviving members of the Zionist Youth Movement and the "Hechalutz" organization living in Israel. Not a mute monument but a living and active institution." Although there are many Theresienstadt related exhibits and archives at this museum, the following service may be of interest to people on this list: "Information on the fate of the nearly 150,000 prisoners of Ghetto Terezin is stored in our Computerized Data Base and available on request. The fee for a query is Nis.15.00 - per name." Apparently they provided information to Madeleine Albright about her Jewish ancestors. I was intrigued by the idea of a computer printout about my relatives' fates. However, through the work of this organization I now know that we were wrong about where my relatives were sent. A researcher at Beit Theresienstadt is trying to find out what happened to them. I plan to send them a donation even if no information is found on my relatives (they can accept checks drawn on US banks). In the meantime, I am wondering if anyone knows if there are microfilms of the issues of Aufbau where concentration camp deaths were listed toward the end of the war. Clara WOLF's death was listed in the Aufbau, and this was how my grandfather and his remaining siblings learned about it. I saw some discussion of the Aufbau in the archives, but it is not clear whether films of these Aufbau issues or listings are available, e.g. through interlibrary loan. I cannot travel to the Holocaust Museum in D.C. in the near future to look up this information. Nevertheless, I hope the information on Beit Theresienstadt is helpful to somebody. Candice Bradley Appleton, WI
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