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In the last years, there has been a growing sense of urgency in collecting documentary material from the Holocaust period. Diaries, drawings, letters and postcards that tell the story of Jewish families were collected.

The documentation project began when they were prisoners in the ghetto of Theresienstadt and culminated in the establishment of Beit Terezin, as they wrote in the founding charter: “We wish to collect in this house all the documentary material about life in ghetto Terezin which is within our grasp.” Most of the documents were written in German and Czech and a large group of volunteers are translating into Hebrew or English and publishing books