Gerta Fischel was born in Praha, Czechoslovakia, 1922 to Otto and Alice. She was a student and single. Prior to WWII she lived in Praha, Czechoslovakia. During the war she was in Praha, Czechoslovakia. Gerta was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Malmoe, Sweden, 17/08/1945.
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Terezinska Pametni Kniha [Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch], Terezinska Iniciativa, vol. I-II Melantrich, Praha 1995, vol. III Academia Verlag, Prag 2000 (Memorial Book Theresienstadt, Terezin Initiative)
Official names of places and districts reflect the administrative organization and state borders of the different countries before 1.01.1938.
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.