In the latest EHRI blog post, the spotlight is on a document about the Terezín ghetto from the Jewish Museum in Prague from September 5, 1942. It details statistics about the “Distribution of infirm people in the ghetto”. Statistics on the elderly and so-called “infirm” people are quite common in the departments of the Jewish Self Administration. However, this document also includes a map of the Terezín Ghetto next to a statistical overview, and shows the distribution of so-called “infirm” people within the individual barracks and houses at a period of time when about 55 per cent of the inmates were over 65 years old. The document “Distribution of infirm people in the ghetto” therefore is a rare exception amongst the many documents dealing with elderly people of the Terezín ghetto.

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