List of prisoners of Theresienstadt

This article lists some notable people who were imprisoned at Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Notable prisoners who died at the camp
  • Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud (died 29 September 1942)
  • Alice Archenhold and Hilde Archenhold, wife and daughter of astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold[1]
  • Eugen Burg, German film actor (died 17 April 1944)
  • Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, editor of the conservative Süddeutsche Monatshefte (died 19 October 1942)
  • Ludwig Czech, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party in pre-war Czechoslovakia and former Czechoslovak minister of Social Care, Public Affairs and Public Health (died 20 August 1942)
  • Robert Desnos, French Surrealist poet (died 8 June 1945)
  • Oskar Fischer, physician (died of a heart attack on 28 February 1942)
  • Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, 1896 Olympics gold medallist (died 28 December 1942)[2]
  • Gisela Januszewska, physician (died 2 March 1943)
  • Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (died 6 March 1945)
  • Emil Kolben, Czech industrialist (founder of ČKD), one of the founders of industrial use of electricity (died 3 September 1943)
  • Clementine Krämer, writer and social worker (died 4 November 1942)
  • Gretchen Metzger (née Guldmann), mother of Otto Metzger (died 28 February 1943)
  • Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar (died 20 October 1942)
  • Margarethe "Trude" Neumann (born 1893), daughter of Theodor Herzl (died 1943)
  • Auguste van Pels, German Jewish refugee who lived in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank. (It is believed that she died during an evacuation transport of prisoners from Raguhn, a subcamp of Buchenwald to Theresienstadt), (died April 1945)[3]
  • Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, creator of Pick's theorem (died 26 July 1942 after two weeks' imprisonment)[4]
  • Ludwig Pick, German pathologist after whom Niemann-Pick disease and Lubarsch-Pick syndrome are named (died 3 February 1944)
  • Samuel Schallinger, Austrian businessman, co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna (died 1942)[5]
  • Margarete Schiff, daughter of psychotherapist Josef Breuer (died 9 September 1942)
  • Zikmund Schul, composer (died 2 June 1944)
  • Amalie Seckbach (née Buch), a noted painter and sculptor (died 10 August 1944)[6]
  • Mathilde Sussin, actress (died 2 August 1943)
  • Alfred Tauber, Austrian and Slovak mathematician (died 26 July 1942)
  • Ernestine Taube, mother of pianist/composer Artur Schnabel, remained in Vienna after the Anschluss and at the age of 83, in August 1942, was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died two months later.
  • Josefine Winter, daughter of Helene and Rudolf Auspitz

Notable survivors
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References
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  3. "Auguste van Pels". anne frank house. Anne Frank Stichting. 2018-09-25.
  4. O'Connor, JJ & Robertson, EF (August 2005). "Georg Alexander Pick". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Scotland: University of St Andrews. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  5. Erlanger, Steven (7 March 2002). "Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews". The New York Times.
  6. Pnina Rosenberg. "Amalie Seckbach (1870–1944) Biography". Learning about the Holocaust through Art.
  7. "Guide to the Papers of Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss". Leo Baeck Institute. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  8. Mark Memmott (24 February 2014). "Oldest-Known Holocaust Survivor Dies; Pianist was 110". NPR. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
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