The word "emigration" took on a new meaning after the arrival of the acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. He immediately banned the rest of what people labeled as Jews were still allowed to do, still calling it "emigration", he prepared a program of their mass deportations to their deaths. First to the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, then he decided to set up a collection ghetto serving as a precursor to industrial murder right in the Protectorate. In Terezín. Thus, the deportees' home sheets do still record that they "moved their residence to Terezín".
Felix Kolmer arrived in the first transport to Terezín.
Felix Kolmer was born in 1922 in Prague. He was first deported with the AK construction team to the ghetto in Terezín, from where he was later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Friedland. After the war, he became a world-renowned expert in the field of acoustics, and in 1949 he joined the Research Institute of Sound, Image and Reproduction Technology in Prague, where he worked until his retirement, including as director. In addition to his scientific work, he also lectured at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University and at the Academy of Performing Arts. He was also involved in the board of the Holocaust Victims Foundation and the International Auschwitz Committee.
The interview was filmed on 15 January 1996 in Prague.