Deutsche Juden in Theresienstadt
German Jews in Terezín

Summary/Abstract: After a brief background information how Theresienstadt was chosen as a transit ghetto for German and Austrian Jews, Karny sketches the living condition of the German Jews in the ghetto. German and Austrian Jews were in a foreign country, while the Czech Jews were in their home coutry,. More importantly, German and Austrian Jews were significantly older, most of them were too old to work. The decision of the Council of the Elders to have working people receive higher food rations, was taken May 1942, when only Czech Jews were in Terezín. Later when the German and Austrian Jews arrived, the problem became a national one. Also in the political and cultural experience was a huge difference between the Austrian and German Jews and the Czech Jews. The overwhelming majority of German Jews who were not deported from Theresienstadt to extermination camps in the East died in the ghetto after a short time, from hunger and weakened.

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