Newspaper clipping

Neue Zürcher Zeitung [Swiss national newspaper, published in Zurich], No. 797, 17.5.1945. Typhoid Epidemic in Theresienstadt London, 16 May. ag (Reuter) Radio Prague is broadcasting an urgent appeal for the delivery of food and pharmaceutical products for the 30,000 inmates of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Some 5,000 men and women are severely ill. 700 cases of typhoid have been counted and 3,000 cases of dysentery. Between 80 and 100 people are dying each day. Owing to the complete lack of medication, a number of deaths among doctors and health care personnel have also been reported. The Jewish prisoners had successfully kept epidemics at bay until three weeks ago. At that point, the Germans transferred 12,000 prisoners from other camps to Theresienstadt, of whom some were sick, others severely undernourished, and facilitated the outbreak of the epidemic.