Testimony of Michal Maud (Steckelmacher) Beer, born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Prostějov, Olomouc and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Michal Maud (Steckelmacher) Beer, born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Prostějov, Olomouc and Theresienstadt Daughter of a wealthy secular family in Prostějov; arrival of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland area, following the Munich Conference and the Anschluss in 1938; German occupation in March 1939; imposition of restrictions and bans; ban on studies in schools; studies within the Jewish community in 1941; work of her father in the Jewish community and his help for refugees; deportation to Olomouc for several nights; transfer to Theresienstadt in July 1942; life in the ghetto including labor in agriculture; help for the elderly with the Yad Tomechet (Helping Hand) organization; receiving packages; studies; arrival of refugees in the ghetto in May 1943; visit by the Red Cross organization in June 1944; filming of a propaganda film in the ghetto in summer 1944; cancellation of the transfer to Switzerland as an orphan in February 1945; liberation by the Red Army in May 1945; life in quarantine due to typhus; aliya to Israel in 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.