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 Alice Archenhold (''née'' Markus; 27 August 1874 – 9 February 1943) was a German astronomer whose husband was fellow astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold. Alice Markus was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and married Friedrich Simon Archenhold ...

and Hilde Archenhold, wife and daughter of astronomer

Friedrich Simon Archenhold Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Westphalia – 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (today the Archenhold Observatory) in Berlin-Treptow. He graduated from the Realgymnasium in ...

Eugen Burg Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ban ...

, German film actor (died 17 April 1944) *

Paul Nikolaus Cossmann Paul Nikolaus Cossmann (6 April 1869 – 19 October 1942) was a German journalist. Biography Born in Baden-Baden into a Jewish family, his parents were cellist Bernhard Cossmann and his wife Mathilde Hilb, the daughter of a Karlsruhe merchant. He ...

, editor of the conservative ''

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'' (died 19 October 1942) * Ludwig Chodziesner, German lawyer and father of poet

Gertrud Kolmar Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner (10 December 1894 – March 1943), known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and was murdered, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a ...

(died February 1943) *

Ludwig Czech Ludwig Czech (14 February 1870 – 20 August 1942) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic who actively participated in the Czechoslovak politics of the so-called Firs ...

, 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 Robert Desnos (; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day. Biography Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the '' H ...

, French Surrealist poet (died 8 June 1945) * Oskar Fischer, physician (died of a heart attack on 28 February 1942) *

Alfred Flatow Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869 – 28 December 1942) was a Jews, Jewish Germany, German gymnastics, gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography Flatow was a successful competitor in 18 ...

, German Olympic gymnast, 1896 Olympics gold medallist (died 28 December 1942) *Gabriel Frankl (born in Pohořelice in 1861), father of

Viktor Frankl Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part ...

(died 13 February 1943, from pneumonia and starvation). *

Gisela Januszewska Gisela Januszewska (also known by surnames Kuhn, Rosenfeld and Roda; 22 January 1867 – 2 March 1943) was an Austrian physician. Having earned her degree in Switzerland, she briefly worked in Germany before becoming the first female physician in ...

, physician (died 2 March 1943) *

Rudolf Karel Rudolf Karel (9 November 1880 in Plzeň – 6 March 1945 in Theresienstadt) was a distinguished Czech people, Czech composer. Biography Rudolf Karel was a son of a railway employee. He studied law at Charles University and then composition from ...

, 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 Clementine Sophie Krämer (née Cahnmann; 7 October 1873 – 4 November 1942) was a German writer of poetry, novellas and short stories. She was also an activist in the German Jewish community and was ultimately detained in Theresienstadt concen ...

, writer and social worker (died 4 November 1942) *Gretchen Metzger (née Guldmann), mother of

Otto Metzger Otto Metzger was a German-British engineer, and inventor of an impact-extrusion process for forming seamless zinc and brass cans. Family Otto Metzger was the son of Jewish parents: Ludwig Metzger (18521931) and Gretchen (Guldmann) (18641943). He ...

(died 28 February 1943) * Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar (died 20 October 1942) *Margarethe "Trude" Neumann (born 1893), daughter of Theodor Herzl (died 1943) *, 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

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, a subcamp of Buchenwald to Theresienstadt), (died April 1945) *

Georg Alexander Pick Georg Alexander Pick (10 August 1859 – 26 July 1942) was an Austrian Jewish mathematician who was murdered during The Holocaust. He was born in Vienna to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick and died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Toda ...

, Austrian mathematician, creator of

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(died 26 July 1942 after two weeks' imprisonment) *

Ludwig Pick Ludwig Pick (31 August 1868 – 3 February 1944) was a German pathologist born in Landsberg an der Warthe. In 1893 he earned his medical doctorate in Leipzig, and subsequently practiced medicine at Leopold Landau's private ''Frauenklinik'', whe ...

, German pathologist after whom Niemann-Pick disease and Lubarsch-Pick syndrome are named (died 3 February 1944) *

Samuel Schallinger Samuel Schallinger (died 1942) was an Austrian Jewish businessman. Biography Schallinger was an Austrian Jewish businessman who was co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna, Austria, which today are still among the city of Vien ...

, Austrian businessman, co-owner of the

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and the Bristol hotels in Vienna (died 1942) *Margarete Schiff, daughter of psychotherapist Josef Breuer (died 9 September 1942) *

Zikmund Schul Zikmund Schul (11 January 1916 – 2 June 1944) was a German Jewish composer. Life Schul was born in Chemnitz, Germany, into an Eastern European Jewish family, and grew up in Kassel. Only little is known about his life. He moved to Prague in 193 ...

, composer (died 2 June 1944) * (née Buch), a noted painter and sculptor (died 10 August 1944) *

Mathilde Sussin Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress. Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Fe ...

, 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

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Notable survivors

H. G. Adler Hans Günther Adler (2 July 1910, in Prague – 21 August 1988, in London) was a German language poet, novelist, scholar, and Holocaust survivor."The Long View", Ruth Franklin, ''The New Yorker'', January 31, 2011, Books, pp 74-78. Life Born in P ...

, German-speaking writer and scholar *

Karel Ančerl Karel Ančerl (11 April 1908 – 3 July 1973) was a Czechoslovak conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. Ančerl was born into a prosper ...

, Czech conductor *

Inge Auerbacher Inge Auerbacher (born December 31, 1934, in Kippenheim) is a German-born American chemist. She is a survivor of the Holocaust and has published many books about her experiences in the Second World War. Early life Inge Auerbacher was the last J ...

, author of 6 books (including three memoirs about her experiences in Terezin and recovering after the war), and the subject of a new play, ''The Star on My Heart'' (November 2015) *

Yehuda Bacon Yehuda Bacon ( he, יהודה בקון; born July 28, 1929 in Ostrava) is an Israeli artist who survived the Holocaust. Biography Yehuda Bacon was born into a Hasidic (Orthodox Jewish) family. In the fall of 1942, at the age of 13, Bacon was de ...

, Israeli artist * Leo Baeck, German rabbi *

Aviva Bar-On Aviva Bar-On (; formerly Bedřiška Winklerová; born September 2, 1932 in Miroslav) is a Czechoslovakian-Israeli Holocaust survivor. Biography Aviva Bar-On was born as Bedřiška Winklerová in a Jewish family on September 2, 1932 in Miroslav, ...

has lived in Israel since 1949. She is known to have sung in 2018, during a concert celebrating

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in Jerusalem, one of the poet

Ilse Weber Ilse Weber (11 January 1903 – 6 October 1944), née Herlinger, was born in Witkowitz near Mährisch-Ostrau. A Jewish poet, she wrote in German, most notably songs and theater pieces for Jewish children. She married Willi Weber in 1930. She w ...

's songs that was transmitted to her orally and her memory was the only record. *

Elsa Bernstein Elsa Bernstein (née Porges; pseudonym, Ernst Rosmer; 27 October 1866 – 2 July 1949) was an Austrian-German writer, dramatist, and literary figure. Life Elsa Porges was born in Vienna, a daughter of Heinrich Porges (a close friend of Richar ...

, Austrian-German playwright *

Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss (14 October 1899 – 10 August 1987) was a German poet. A survivor of Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps, she wrote largely about the Holocaust. Biography Ilse Weiss was born on 14 October 1899 in Berlin to Go ...

, German poet *

Ellen Burka Ellen Burka (née Danby; August 11, 1921 – September 12, 2016) was a Canadian-Dutch figure skater and coach. She became Member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. Personal life Ellen ...

, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach * Bela Dekany, Hungarian Jewish-born renowned British violinist and leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra *

Arthur Eichengrün Arthur Eichengrün (13 August 1867 – 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until th ...

, German chemist who invented anti- gonorrhoea drug

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Kurt Epstein Kurt Epstein (January 29, 1904 – February 1, 1975) was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player and survivor of Nazi concentration camps. Early life Epstein was Jewish, and born to Maximilian and Helena Epstein. He grew up in Roudnice nad L ...

, Czech Olympic water polo competitor *

Emil František Burian Emil František Burian (11 June 1904 – 9 August 1959) was a Czech poet, journalist, singer, actor, musician, composer, dramatic adviser, playwright and director. He was also active in Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politics. Early life an ...

, Czech communist playwright, actor, composer and writer *

, Austrian neurologist and

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* Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor *

Petr Ginz Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of si ...

, Czech child prodigy writer, died in Auschwitz in 1944 *

Richard Glazar Richard Glazar (November 29, 1920 – December 20, 1997) was a Czech-Jewish inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. One of a small group of survivors of the camp's prisoner revolt in August 1943, G ...

and Karel Unger, they were subsequently transferred to Treblinka, from which they ultimately escaped *Michael Gruenbaum, writer *

Alena Hájková Alena Hájková (née Divišová; 11 October 1924 – 2 August 2012) was a Czech Communist resistance fighter and historian. Resistance Alena Divišová was born in 1924 to a working class Prague family in Vršovice. At 14, she left school and we ...

, Czech historian and resistance fighter *

Alice Herz-Sommer Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Herz (26 November 1903 – 23 February 2014), was a Prague-born Jews, Jewish classical pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. She lived for 40 years in ...

, Czech pianist; the focus of the documentary ''

The Lady in Number 6 ''The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life'' is an Academy Award-winning 2013 documentary-short film directed, written and produced by Malcolm Clarke. ''The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life'' tells the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-s ...

''. Died at 110 years old on 23 February 2014, oldest known survivor of the Holocaust. *

Fredy Hirsch Alfred Hirsch ( he, פרדי הירש; – ) was a History of the Jews in Germany, German-Jewish athlete, sports teacher and Zionist youth movement leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of Czecho ...

, deputy leader of the children at Theresienstadt, deported 8 September 1943 to

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and died 8 March 1944 *

Milada Horáková Milada Horáková (née Králová, 25 December 1901 – 27 June 1950) was a Czech politician and a member of underground resistance movement during World War II. She was a victim of judicial murder, convicted and executed by the nation's Commu ...

, Czech politician *Berthold Jeiteles, scientist, Talmudic scholar, and descendant of notable Prague family * Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist * Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician of Slovak origin * Gidon Lev, Czech-born Israeli TikTok star and Holocaust educator * Arnošt Lustig, Czech novelist *Pavel Mahrer, Paul Mahrer, professional soccer player (died 1984) *Ferdinand Münz (1888-1969), chemist. The inventor of EDTA. *Oskar Neumann, Czech lawyer and former president of the Ústredňa Židov, Slovak Jewish Council *Arnošt Reiser, professor of chemistry, author and inventor *Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichordist *Jo Spier, illustrator *Peter Spier, Author and illustrator of children's books *Sam Swaap, Dutch violinist and conductor *Emil Utitz, German-language academic
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ref> * Ela Weissberger, the Cat in ''Brundibár'' (performed in schools around the world in memory of the children who did not survive)

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