5 February 1894 | A Czech Jewish woman, Irma Abelesová, was born in Řehlovice.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. After selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. After selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
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1780: the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II ordered the erection of a fortress, named Theresienstadt after his mother Maria Theresa. With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it became part of the new state Czechoslovakia.