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Theresienstadt ghetto (Terezín, Terezin), 19.2.1944: original Holocaust document, page 3 of the report of the Jewish Elder Dr. Paul Eppstein on his audience with the deputy commandant SS-Obersturmführer Bergel: detention orders, the threat of a mail ban on the ghetto, a Viennese prisoner to be arrested and his punishment published in the daily order. Typed signature Eppstein - Original Holocaust document from the Theresienstadt ghetto: typewritten page on thin, semi-transparent paper, 20.5 x 27 cm, numbered ”-3-” at the head: ”Audience with Herr SS-Obersturmführer Bergel at 11.30”. Three items, 13 to 15, and the typed signature Eppstein, ”Theresienstadt, 19 February 1944”. From the daily audience reports of the Jewish Elder Dr. Paul Eppstein (1902-1944, shot in the Small Fortress on 27.9.1944). 13. ”Parcel confirmation cards”: despite repeated warnings a Jew again sent a parcel confirmation card to an ”Aryan” who had sent him no parcel: Leopold Israel Adel, born 3.2.1898 in Vienna, to be arrested and punished at once, the punishment and its reason to be published in the daily order. As Gestapo offices complain in numbers, a further case will bring a mail ban (Postsperre) on the ghetto. 14. ”Detention cases”: a) Alfred Loebl to be kept in protective custody; suspected of diphtheria, he is in the infectious diseases hospital as a prisoner. The other Loebls may be released on good behaviour, sworn to silence about all they were asked and heard at the command office. b) Bloch to be released for lack of evidence. c) Hübsch, former orderly of the SS mess (Kameradschaftsheim), released, to report daily between 16 and 17 to SS-Obersturmführer Rahm (commandant from 8.2.1944) or to Bergel; barred from the mess. 15. ”Location reports of the agriculture”: reports by slips to the gendarmerie to cease; the group leader reports at the gendarmerie post on leaving the town. SS-Obersturmführer Karl Bergl (born 1902), camp inspector and deputy commandant, was known as the most violent of the SS men in the ghetto. The page complete, horizontal folds, a small tear at the middle fold and a small stain at the lower margin, the text clear, exactly as photographed. Theresienstadt, Terezín, Terezin, Terezinstadt, Theresienstadt ghetto.