Dr. Hans Schmoller (10 April 1879 – 2 November 1942) was a German Jew from Berlin. Moniek Goldberg, one of the teenage boys who was brought to Windermere, recalled that Theresienstadt was “a nightmare”. The Cinqfontaines Abbey is a majestic gray monastery resting atop a snow-covered hill an hour-and-a-quarter drive from Luxembourg’s capital near the German border. Unlike the adolescents, the young children brought to Britain from Theresienstadt had been captives in the ghetto-camp for years – indeed, none had any memories of life before the camp. Heydrich intended Theresienstadt as a decoy, meant to convince the world that elderly Jews were being sent to a ‘spa town’ rather than to a holding pen and prison. The first prisoners arrived on 10 May 1945. Trenches and low-lying areas around the fortress could be flooded for defensive purposes. The camp and prison were liberated on 9 May 1945 by the Soviet Army.[5]. She had years of experience working with psychologically troubled children, but she still worried that the task before her would test her skills to the limit. We were in Theresienstadt for three months. In December 1945, she went to live at Weir Courtney under Alice Goldberger’s care, where she spent the rest of her childhood. From then on the inmates were gradually transferred to Germany and Terezín was increasingly used as a hub for the forced migration of Germans from the Czech lands into Germany proper. The Jewish Ghetto was created in 1941. Postwar efforts to help these children – alongside the estimated 13 million other European children who lost parents in the war – constituted one of the largest humanitarian aid projects in history. If you subscribe to BBC History Magazine Print or Digital Editions then you can unlock 10 years’ worth of archived history material fully searchable by Topic, Location, Period and Person. More than 150,000 Jews were sent there, including 15,000 children. “People were dying like so many flies,” he remembered. Of those aged between four and ten who arrived on Alice’s birthday in 1945, one girl was found by an uncle and aunt, and went to live with them – although she believed for many years that they were in fact her father and mother. Home Office officials were in fact quite reluctant to allow even small numbers of child survivors into the country. . The roughly 150,000 children under the age of 18 who survived had seen periods in hiding, in ghettoes, and in forced labour and concentration camps, and many found that they were orphans at the war’s end. How would they behave? The troops' departure and closing down of related operations had a negative effect on the local economy of the small town. But to the surprise of those waiting, the children who stepped off the plane were teenagers. There seems to be a problem, please try again. The Dann sisters noted that the toddlers were suspicious of adults, but had formed strong attachments to each other. Garrison church in the Main Fortress was designed by Heinrich Hatzinger, Julius D’Andreis and Franz Joseph Fohmann. By the final days of April 1945, Theresienstadt had become a dumping ground for survivors of other camps, bringing with them infectious diseases such as dysentery and typhus. You can unsubscribe at any time. The rest, two boys and four girls, stayed with Alice, as did several of the children who arrived in 1946. It was on the other side of the river from the ghetto and operated separately. Roughly 800 children remained, including the children who eventually made their way to Britain. He was deported to Theresienstadt alone in June 1943, as a two-year-old toddler. Plane after plane arrived, but there were no young children among the passengers. In July 1945 the camp shifted under the control of the Czech Ministry for Domestic Affairs. One girl had pronounced developmental problems, and was eventually sent to live in a specialised home for children with learning disabilities. The war was winding down and Allied forces were closing in, yet my fate seemed sealed. Construction of Theresienstadt started at the westernmost cavalier on 10 October 1780 and lasted ten years. There were 1,600 surviving children in the camp when Czech health workers entered on 4 May 1945. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Most significantly, however, it was a propaganda exercise meant to hide the true nature of Nazi deportations. Her new book, Orphans of the Storm: Children After the Holocaust, will be published by Yale University Press in 2020. The assembled crowd pressed forwards: staff, journalists from the local papers, customs officials and a welcoming party from the local Women’s Voluntary Service. One girl was adopted. Early in 1946, two additional groups of young child survivors arrived: some were survivors of Auschwitz, and some had survived the war in hiding and in orphanages. This article was first published in the January 2020 edition of History Revealed. Sir Benjamin Drage, a philanthropist who owned a chain of furniture stories, donated part of Weir Courtney, his estate in Lingfield, Surrey, for this purpose – and Alice herself volunteered to act as matron. It was a shock and a pleasant surprise to see the first batch get out of the planes, looking much fitter and stronger than anything we had expected.” The children had in fact had two months’ recovery time, in liberated Theresienstadt and then in Prague, to eat nourishing food and regain some of their strength. [5], Although it was not an extermination camp, about 33,000 died in the ghetto. She and her mother are the only survivors of their family, 15 members of whom were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau: three of Eva’s grandparents, her father, uncles, aunts and her 7-year-old cousin, Peter. Alice Goldberger and her staff at Windermere soon decided that because the young children were so few in number, it would be best for them to be moved into their own dedicated facilities as quickly as possible. The children due to arrive that afternoon had seen the inside of the concentration camps. In 1946, Alice received some surprising news: Avigdor’s mother had survived and was living in Austria. They were “aggressive” and “difficult to handle”, but equally nurturing and protective of the others in the group, in a way that is rarely true of ordinary siblings. A great group of internees was arrested because of their German nationality, among them young boys and elderly people. Considerable work was done in the next two years to adapt the complex for the dense overcrowding that inmates would be subjected to. Early in 1946, two additional groups of young child survivors arrived: some were survivors of Auschwitz, and some had survived the war in hiding and in orphanages. Goldberger, a childcare expert who had come to Britain in 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, was standing on the tarmac at the airfield in Crosby-on-Eden, near Carlisle, waiting to begin a radical new work assignment. Zdenka was six years old when she was liberated, and soon found herself in Windermere. Montefiore managed to persuade the Home Office to allow 1,000 children under the age of 16 to be brought to Britain for recuperation. On May 10, 1945, I … “I thought about the dolls and bears in each of the beds, and what a joke that would be to these adolescents when they went to their beds.” Finally, long after dark, the last two planes arrived, and among the passengers were nine children between the ages of four and ten, and six three-year-old toddlers. 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War. “There were times when I wondered what I was doing there.”. What would they need? Some were later captured. Terezín is still trying to develop a more diverse economy; some people think its history can attract heritage tourism. In the first phase of the camp lasting until July 1945 mortality was high due to diseases, malnutrition and incidents of simple outright murder. As soon as their visit was over, deportations to the east recommenced, where most former inmates of Theresienstadt were murdered. Tuesday 27 January is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. She particularly remembers screaming as her head was shaved. [3] This attack occurred two days after Austria and Prussia had agreed to make peace, but the Theresienstadt garrison was ignorant of the news.[4]. Little bowls of sweets had been placed on the nightstands. Zdenka Husserl was born in Prague in February 1939; her parents were called Helena and Pavel. Save up to 72% and get your first 6 issues for only £9.99! Thanks! [2], The fortress was never under direct siege. The Home Office had specified that the children must be under 16 but in the end, because few of the children had birth certificates or any other form of identification, many were older. Zdenka was separated from her mother in the camp; she learned years later that Helena was deported to her death in Auschwitz in 1944. They had repurposed a set of barracks built during the war for aircraft factory workers, and had scrubbed and rescrubbed the dormitories. By entering your details, you are agreeing to HistoryExtra terms and conditions and privacy policy. During World War I, the fortress was used as a political prison camp. Jackie Young was born in Vienna in December 1941, and deported to Theresienstadt when he was only nine months old. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy which ended after the Partitions of Poland in the 18th century. Through Anna Freud’s connections, a home was found for the six toddlers: after two months in Windermere, they moved into Bulldogs Bank, a cottage in West Hoathly, where they were cared for by German-Jewish emigré sisters Sophie and Gertrud Dann, who took careful notes on their behaviour. “We had as happy a childhood as any normal child,” she recalls. It was 15 August 1945, the day of Alice Goldberger’s 48th birthday. Before the visit, the town was ‘beautified’: gardens were planted, houses painted and a programme of cultural events was put in place. These facilities were administered by Allied authorities and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).. Most of these children later had only hazy memories of the camp, but several remembered “lots of large rooms, with lots of beds”, and a few recalled strange events such as being made to walk around naked in the spring sunshine – a cynical attempt on the part of the camp’s guards to brighten the children’s pale, nutrient-deprived complexions in anticipation of a visit from the Red Cross in June 1944. In 2002 the town was struck by floods during which the crematorium was damaged. This was mostly due to the appalling conditions arising out of extreme population density, malnutrition and disease. Nor was the government willing to put up any of the costs, so the considerable funds needed for the rescue effort came entirely from donations from Britain’s Jewish community. The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust. It was unbearable.”. In peacetime it held 5,655 soldiers, and in wartime around 11,000 soldiers could be placed here. A joint project between Portraits of Honor: Our Michigan Holocaust Survivors, the Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families, and the Voice/Vision Archive. About 88,000 inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz and the other extermination camps. Nevertheless, Jewish people imprisoned in Theresienstadt managed to maintain a degree of normalcy in the camp – and this was particularly true for children. In 1942, the great psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, his wife, and parents were deported to the Nazi Theresienstadt Ghetto. From there, he went to live in the Weir Courtney care home with Alice Goldberger and her staff. This only entered her mind as she watched the sky for aeroplanes. It was a transit camp for Czech Jews before they were deported onwards to killing centres and concentration camps in the east; it was a ghetto where people were imprisoned and forced to work; and, in the end, it was a dumping ground for prisoners from other camps as the Nazi empire collapsed. [8] A conservation plan was eventually developed in cooperation with national authorities. In August the children arrived, carried from the continent in specially adapted British bombers. On 29 February 1948 the last German prisoners were released and the camp was officially closed. He had just passed his fourth birthday when he was liberated and brought to Windermere. All were to be granted temporary two-year visas, for Home Office officials insisted that the children should eventually move on. During the second half of the 19th century, the fortress was also used as a prison. By the end of the war 32,000 prisoners of whom 5,000 were women passed through the Small Fortress. Around 90,000 people went through it, and 2,600 died there. You will shortly receive a receipt for your purchase via email. The Bulldogs Bank … But as was the case for thousands of other child survivors of the Holocaust whose parents also survived, there was to be no happy reunion for Avigdor and his mother. Eva was born in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on 29th April 1945. Red Cross officials fell for the trick. We could barely distinguish the living from the dead. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, died there of tuberculosis in 1918. On 2 October 1942, Hans sent this Red Cross Telegram to his sister in law, Johanna Behrend, who had emigrated to England in 1939. When Zdenka was only two years old, her father was deported to the Lodz ghetto, where he perished. Terezín is noted for its production of furniture and knitwear, as well as for manufacturing. After the German surrender the small fortress was used as an internment camp for ethnic Germans. And despite the Home Office’s insistence that the children’s stay in Britain was temporary, most went on to live the rest of their lives in Britain. They had been sent westwards on death marches as Allied forces approached, for by the spring of 1945, there were few other places in the dwindling area of German control in which large numbers of people could be held captive. [7] The organization called for a comprehensive conservation plan, while providing funding for emergency repairs from American Express. The staff wanted the children to feel welcome, but none knew quite what to expect of these children who had been found in or near the liberated ghetto-camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. These workers had, after all, ensured that nearly 10,000 children had been rescued from central Europe in 1938 and 1939, and brought to Britain via the Kindertransport scheme. For the teenagers who arrived at Crosby-on-Eden on that day in August 1945, Theresienstadt had been but a brief final destination after two-year or three-year sagas that had taken them through many different concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The collection began when the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors approached their members in the late 1980s for Holocaust-related memorabilia to found a museum. During the Austro-Prussian War, on 28 July 1866, part of the garrison attacked and destroyed an important railway bridge near Neratovice (rail line Turnov – Kralupy nad Vltavou) that was shortly before repaired by the Prussians. Of the thousands of children deported eastwards from the camp, a mere 142 survived. In Theresienstadt, they had been housed in a special facility for infants, separated from their families and cared for by other inmates. [5][6] As late as the end of 1944, the Germans were still deporting Jews to the death camps. In May 1945, philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, one of the founders of the Central British Fund (the key aid agency overseeing the children’s rescue, which exists today as the humanitarian and development charity World Jewish Relief) had gone to Paris, where he had seen some of the first liberated concentration camp survivors. In 1938, it annexed the Sudetenland. Construction of Theresienstadt started at the westernmost cavalier on 10 October 1780 and lasted ten years. Then they waited for the planes. After the related war uses, such as for holding ethnic Germans to be expelled, the government retained a military garrison until 1996. The history of Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. The official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed, Try 6 issues of BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed for only £9.99, In August 1945, 300 traumatised Jewish children, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, were brought to the Lake District. Would the staff at Windermere be able to help them at all? The first inmates arrived on 14 June 1940. These were primarily Czechs, later other nationals, for instance citizens of the former Soviet Union, Poles, Germans, and Yugoslavs. The Central British Fund rushed to prepare the Windermere reception centre. The fortress consisted of a citadel, the "Small Fortress" (Kleine Festung), to the east of the Ohře, and a walled town, the "Main Fortress" (Große Festung), to the west. But the worst of all was the stench. Other children later joined the nine Theresienstadt children at Weir Courtney. You're now subscribed to our newsletter. They knew little about what had gone on in Hitler’s concentration camps, but had all seen shocking photos in newspapers and footage in newsreels of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald in April 1945: the corpses of the dead, and the starved and broken bodies of the living, peering out of skull-like faces, witnesses to conditions so horrific they stretched the human imagination. Holocaust Remembrance Day: Two survivors' tales of survival and hope These two survivors whose fascinating stories serve as a reminder of the horrors of … The planes she awaited were bringing 300 orphaned Jewish child survivors of Nazi concentration camps to Britain, and Alice was part of a team charged with helping these children to begin a new life. He was three years old at the time of liberation, and was sent with the other toddlers to Bulldogs Bank after his arrival in England. Goldberger had spent the war years in London working at Anna Freud’s War Nurseries (Anna Freud was Sigmund Freud’s daughter, and the founder of the field of child psychoanalysis), caring for young children made homeless by bombing. The Sydney Jewish Museum collection consists of over 12,000 artefacts and over 1,000 oral histories and testimonies. It then followed in 1939 by occupying the rest of Bohemia, and the Moravia part of Czechoslovakia. From 1945 to 1952, more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs) lived in camps and urban centers in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Indeed, some stayed with Alice even when their own birth parents turned up alive (see boxout). In June 1944, the International Red Cross was allowed to visit Theresienstadt. This deception went far. In 2002, the fortress, which was in a deteriorated condition, was listed in the 2002 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. Nazi Germany used this population of ethnic Germans as a rationale for expansion of the borders of the Fatherland. “I had never seen anything so ghastly in my life,” he later wrote. The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants was founded in 1985 to bring child survivors together and coordinate worldwide activities. They were not protected from onward deportation, however, and of the 15,000 children who passed through Theresienstadt, an estimated 90 per cent were killed. Among the interned Germans were former Nazis like Heinrich Jöckel, the former commander of Terezín and other SS members. 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Together with a staff of around 35 people, Goldberger had worked to prepare a temporary reception centre near Windermere for the children. Forgotten voices: the history behind Holocaust Memorial Day, Songs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, 12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary, “Many of the Holocaust’s perpetrators got away with it”: why Nazi crimes went unpunished, What would you have done? The fortress consisted of a citadel, the "Small Fortress" (Kleine Festung), to the east of the Ohře, and a walled town, the "Main Fortress" (Große Festung), to the west.The total area of the fortress was 3.89 km². “It was not what I thought it would be like,” he recalled. It was not natural or inevitable that these child survivors of the Holocaust should have come to Britain. On 10 January 1780, the Habsburg emperor Joseph II ordered the erection of the fortress, named Theresienstadt after his mother Empress Maria Theresa. Many prisoners were later sent to concentration camps such as Mauthausen. Nonetheless, the children’s bodies showed signs of damage from malnutrition: of the six toddlers, two had damage to their eyes from nutrient deficiency and another toddler had trouble walking. The total area of the fortress was 3.89 km². By 1940, Germany assigned the Gestapo to adapt Terezín, better known by the German name Theresienstadt, as a ghetto and concentration camp. After the six toddlers were settled into Bulldogs Bank, Alice worked to secure a home for the remaining nine children who were between the ages of four and ten. The hours crept by. Terezín (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtɛrɛziːn] (listen); German: Theresienstadt) is a former military fortress composed of the citadel and adjacent walled garrison town of Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. The town is located in North Bohemia, along the Ohře River, near its confluence with the Elbe River at Litoměřice. Many later recalled their wonder at arriving at the beautiful, huge house at night to see its many windows shining with candlelight. At the end of the war, there were 17,247 survivors of Theresienstadt (including some who had survived the death camps). In 1942, Hans and his wife, Marie-Elisabeth (2 January 1887 – 16 May 1944), were deported to Theresienstadt. Please enter your number below. She was so excited and so nervous that she had forgotten it was her birthday. Ella Baker was born in Vysni Apsa, Czechoslovakia on August 31, 1924 but grew up in Cop, Slovakia. Most of the prisoners were arrested for various acts of resistance to the Nazi regime; among them were the family members and supporters of the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich. Some grave markers were recovered.[9]. In the times of Austria–Prussia rivalry, it was meant to secure the bridges across the Ohře and Elbe Rivers against Prussian troops invading the Bohemian lands from neighbouring Saxony. Of the six toddlers, five were adopted relatively soon after joining the older children at Weir Courtney (despite foreign-born children not being legally allowed to be adopted in Britain until the 1950s). An estimated 90 per cent of Europe’s Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. His mother was too emotionally troubled to commit to his care, and he did not see her again until 1959 when, in his late teens, he emigrated to the United States to try to live with her. [5], Part of the fortification (Small Fortress) served as the largest Gestapo prison in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The beds had crisp white sheets. It was located in an area with a high proportion of ethnic Germans in the population, known as the Sudetenland. Rebecca Clifford is associate professor of history at Swansea University. Other children later joined the nine Theresienstadt children at Weir Courtney. Published in 1951, the paper remains to this day a core text in the field of child psychology. In September and October 1944, the infants’ home and children’s homes in Theresienstadt were liquidated, and the majority of the camp’s children were sent eastwards to Auschwitz, where almost all were murdered upon arrival. Circumstances surrounding his early months and years are unclear. Just as Seder night is different from all other nights, so was the Holocaust Haggadah created by survivors for survivors seventy-five years ago for Passover 1946. The organization began holding annual conference in cities the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel. I shall never quite forget the impression they made.”. One of the child drawings from Terezín, now exhibited in the Pinkas Synagogue, For the Nazi concentration camp for Jews, see, View to the Church of the Resurrection of Christ from Havlíček Street. Internment camp for ethnic Germans his wife, and her earliest memories are from the continent specially. 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