After being relieved of his duties as the Elder of the Jews, Jacob Edelstein was arrested on November 9, 1943. He was placed in prison in the Terezin ghetto on the grounds that he had helped to cover up for ghetto escapees by manipulating the prisoner records.
Already on 15 December he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. There he was separated from his family and tortured for six months in another, main camp, before being murdered.
The full extent of his illegal work will probably never be fully revealed. During the war, of course, he had to keep all resistance activities strictly secret, and neither Edelstein nor his closest collaborators lived to see the liberation.
Now watch two clips of memories of former Terezín ghetto inmates:
How is the fact that one of the most important figures of interwar Jewish Prague lived in the house remembered on location today?