Ostrava Stolpersteine Young Jews Memory may be distorted

Memory may be distorted

Thelma Gruenbaum reveals the previously undocumented life of the children at Terezin

it was just a job

one of survival

The 10 boys detailed here shared a room with 30 others and they called themselves the Nesarim or eagles

Ostrava Stolpersteine Young Jews Memory may be distortedThe story of Ostrava and its Jews mirrors, on a small scale, the history of Central Europe, the Jews and the Holocaust. Ostrava is 250 miles due east of Prague, on the banks of the Ostravice river in the valley of the River Oder. In the 1930s the population was about 325,000 with about 10,000 Jews. Our book illustrates the stolpersteine of 88 Jews who lived in Ostrava and died in the Shoah. We have researched biographies, photographs, and shown their