# List of prisoners of Theresienstadt

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 and Hilde Archenhold, wife and daughter of astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold
* Eugen Burg, German film actor (died 17 April 1944)
* Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, editor of the conservative Süddeutsche Monatshefte (died 19 October 1942)
* Ludwig Chodziesner, German lawyer and father of poet Gertrud Kolmar (died February 1943)
* Ludwig Czech, 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, French Surrealist poet (died 8 June 1945)
* Oskar Fischer, physician (died of a heart attack on 28 February 1942)
* Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, 1896 Olympics gold medallist (died 28 December 1942)
* Gabriel Frankl (born in Pohořelice in 1861), father of Viktor Frankl (died 13 February 1943, from pneumonia and starvation).
* Gisela Januszewska, physician (died 2 March 1943)
* Rudolf Karel, 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, writer and social worker (died 4 November 1942)
* Gretchen Metzger (née Guldmann), mother of Otto Metzger (died 28 February 1943)
* Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar (died 20 October 1942)
* Margarethe "Trude" Neumann (born 1893), daughter of Theodor Herzl (died 1943)
* Auguste van Pels [de], 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 Raguhn, a subcamp of Buchenwald to Theresienstadt), (died April 1945)
* Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, creator of Pick's theorem (died 26 July 1942 after two weeks' imprisonment)
* Ludwig Pick, German pathologist after whom Niemann-Pick disease and Lubarsch-Pick syndrome are named (died 3 February 1944)
* Samuel Schallinger, Austrian businessman, co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna (died 1942)
* Margarete Schiff, daughter of psychotherapist Josef Breuer (died 9 September 1942)
* Zikmund Schul, composer (died 2 June 1944)
* Amalie Seckbach [de] (née Buch), a noted painter and sculptor (died 10 August 1944)
* Mathilde Sussin, 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 Rudolf Auspitz

## Notable survivors

* H. G. Adler, German-speaking writer and scholar
* Karel Ančerl, Czech conductor
* Inge Auerbacher, 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, Israeli artist
* Leo Baeck, German rabbi
* Aviva Bar-On has lived in Israel since 1949. She is known to have sung in 2018, during a concert celebrating Independence Day in Jerusalem, one of the poet Ilse Weber's songs that was transmitted to her orally and her memory was the only record.
* Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German playwright
* Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, German poet
* Ellen Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach
* Bela Dekany, Hungarian Jewish-born renowned British violinist and leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
* Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist who invented anti-gonorrhoea drug Protargol
* Kurt Epstein, Czech Olympic water polo competitor
* Emil František Burian, Czech communist playwright, actor, composer and writer
* Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychologist
* Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor
* Petr Ginz, Czech child prodigy writer, died in Auschwitz in 1944
* Richard Glazar and Karel Unger, they were subsequently transferred to Treblinka, from which they ultimately escaped
* Michael Gruenbaum, writer
* Alena Hájková, Czech historian and resistance fighter
* Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech pianist; the focus of the documentary The Lady in Number 6. Died at 110 years old on 23 February 2014, oldest known survivor of the Holocaust.
* Fredy Hirsch, deputy leader of the children at Theresienstadt, deported 8 September 1943 to Auschwitz and died 8 March 1944
* Milada Horáková, 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
* 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 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
* Ronald Waterman
* Ela Weissberger, the Cat in Brundibár (performed in schools around the world in memory of the children who did not survive)