Mrs. Carla Josephus Jitta - Personal Reflections on the Holocaust

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In 1944, toward the end of the Second World War, Carla Josephus Jitta (1931) was transferred to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork, before being transported further to the ghetto of Theresienstadt, a small fortified town in what is now the Czech Republic. In their propaganda, the Nazis presented the Theresienstadt ghetto as an ideal Jewish residential ground, but it fact it served as a transit facility to the destruction camp. In the course of the war, the Nazis sent more and more Jews there, and due to overpopulation, hunger and disease, circumstances continuously worsened. Carla Jitta survived her stay in Theresienstadt thanks to such coincidences that may be found in many war memories. In her lecture, she will address her roots, her memories of the war, and the exceptional way in which she was liberated.