Shock Report: The Life of European Jews in Hitler's Time *
Spring's end (introduction p.III)
On April 18, 1942, a transport of 909 Jews from Cˇeské Budeˇjovice, including Gustav and Erna Freund and their sons Karel and John, was taken to the former Czech garrison town of Terezin, run by the Germans as a ghetto and transit camp and known in German as Theresienstadt. During the month of April 1942, five transports from Prague and the regions nearby reached Theresienstadt with a total of 4,832 Jews. At that time, the population of the ghetto of Theresienstadt was 12,986, all from Bohemia and Moravia. In its three and a half years of operation, nearly 140,000 people passed through Theresienstadt: Jews from Bohemia and Moravia, Germany, Austria, Holland, Denmark and Slovakia.