Terna family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Frederich Taussig, born 1923 in Vienna, Austria and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Materials also illustrates his mother [d. 1932] and father, Lona and Jochanan Taussig, younger brother Thomas [the latter two whom did not survive] as well as his first spouse Stella [also survivor of Auschwitz]. Paintings and artwork; postwar art that reflects and illustrate Frederick’s experiences surrounding the Holocaust. Included is a harmonica belonging to Tomas "Tommy" Terna, who entrusted it to his friend Zdenka Herboltova in Prague before he was deported, and ultimately killed at Auschwitz. She held on to it her entire life, and upon her death her grandson returned it to Frederick Terna c. 2014. Photographs taken durng summer camp in Czechoslovakia dated 1938-1939.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 and 2018 by Frederick Terna.