Mladá Boleslav, hrad

Hrad Mladá Boleslav, Staroměstské náměstí 1/55, 293 80 Mladá Boleslav, Česká republika

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Before the road to hell

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In January 1943, the then 16 year-old Miloš Pick and his family had to board a train that took them to Mladá Boleslav. The local Scout club house served as the place for the registration of Jews before they were dispatched to Theresienstadt. Over 700 of them spent three days in a space that was completely inadequate for their needs. Miloš Pick recalls that they were guarded by the German Gestapo and the Czech gendarmerie: "The gendarmes from Jičín behaved in a very decent way to us. They would pass us the news from the London broadcast. On the contrary, the Gestapo men slapped their way through the overcrowded club house." After three days, they were taken to the train station, loaded into cattle cars and they departed in the direction of Theresienstadt. "The Nazi guards constantly aimed their machine guns at us so we grasped that this would be no rosy walk. We understood that they were taking us to a place from which it was very hard to return," he recalled. Miloš Pick adds that only 21 Jews of those 700 assembled in the club house in Mladá Boleslav survived the war.

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Miloš Pick

Miloš Pick was born in August 16th, 1926 in a Jewish family in Libáň, where his grandfather and father owned a small factory. After the Nazi occupation he joined local resistance movement. With his friend he printed and distributed leaflets. In January 1943 Hájek was transported to Terezín. He became a member of Communist Party in 1943. In September 1944 he was moved to Auschwitz. He managed to escape death in a gas chamber by reporting to Mengele higher age and a locksmith profession during the first selection on the ramp, after he got a warning from his friend Gert Körbel. Later Pick was sent to forced labor in Reich. From November 1944 to April 1945 he worked in a factory in Meuselwitz-Buchenwald. At the close of the war in April 1945, Hájek escaped with a few friends from a death march back to Bohemia. All Jews transported from Libáň but Miloš Pick and his sister Soňa have perished. Their parents were murdered in Auschwitz. After the 1948 Miloš Pick had been working in the State Planing Commision. He was expelled from the Communist Party after the soviet invasion in August 1968.

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Mladá Boleslav, hrad

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Hrad v Mladé Boleslavi vznikl v polovině 13. století v místech, kde se předtím od 10. století nacházelo slovanské hradiště. Během následujících století prošel několika přestavbami. Počátkem 18. století byl proměněn na kasárna a vojenské posádky v něm sídlily až do roku 1940, kdy se stal internačním střediskem pro Židy z města a širokého okolí. Ty pak čekal transport do Terezína nebo některého z nacistických vyhlazovacích táborů. Ve dvou transportech označených Cl a Cm bylo deportováno 1043 zdejších Židů a jen 48 z nich se dočkalo konce války. Od roku 1943 hrad znovu sloužil jako kasárna a od počátku padesátých let se v něm nacházelo skladiště textilu. Od roku 1972 v něm sídlí státní okresní archiv a Muzeum Mladoboleslavska.

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Miloš Pick

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