Testimony of Chaim Heinz Shmueli Shmul, born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1935, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Czechoslovakia

Testimony of Chaim Heinz Shmueli Shmul, born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1935, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Czechoslovakia Son of a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father; disconnection from his Jewish family following the intermarriage of his father; German occupation of the Sudetenland; escape to Prague in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; divorce of his parents and his mother abandoning him; activism of his father in the anti-Nazi underground; detention of his father in 1943; wandering alone in the streets; capture by the Gestapo; interrogation and beatings; being handed over to the Jewish community; release of his father from detention; deportation to Theresienstadt with his father in January 1944; living in the children's block; being made to work; preparations for a visit of a Red Cross delegation to Theresienstadt; participating in a propaganda film regarding the children in the ghetto; preservation of his paintings from the camp in a museum in the Czech Republic; transferring his father to Auschwitz and the Gleiwitz camp; deportation of most of the children in the group; being rescued from deportation due to having a non-Jewish mother; liberation by the Red Army in May 1945; reunion with his father; rehabilitation with the help of the JDC; return to Teplice; aliya to Israel with his father in 1949.