As you recall Inga talked her Nazi friend into having her arrested so she can be with Karl. Theresienstadt was a transit ghetto and the only people who were sent there were wealthy Jews. How did Inga get sent to Theresienstadt? If she was a political prisoner or common criminal she probaly would have been sent to either Dachau, Buchenwald, or Ravensbruck.
sharei'll agree that inga wouldnt have been sent there but as for wealthy jews, theresienstadt was mainly for jewish heros those who had fought in world war 1 mainly to reassure them before they sent them on and plenty of children also passed through also not wealthy
shareDidn't she appeal to a Nazi she knew fairly well? I thought he pulled strings to make sure she was sent to the camp she wanted to go to. Were there special camps for Catholics or were they sent to the same places as others?
sharegenerally sent to the same places as the others but Theresienstadt was a 'ghetto' as opposed to a camp although conditions there werent any better than anywhere else
I've danced with you, I'm never gonna dance again - Lucky to Penny in Swingtime, 1936
There was a section for Polish Catholics in Auschwitz. That is where Maximilian Kolbe died in 1941 when he volunteered to take the place of another prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, in the starvation bunker. Both Kolbe and Gajowniczek were Polish Catholics; in fact, Kolbe was a priest.
The Polish Christian prisoners may have had better food and lighter work than the Jews, who generally survived at most a few weeks in Auschwitz. Gajowniczek not only lived to see Auschwitz liberated, he was in Rome to see Pope John Paul II canonize Kolbe in 1982, and he finally died in 1995.