List of prisoners of Theresienstadt

This article lists some notable people who were imprisoned at Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Notable prisoners who died at the camp

 * Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud (died 29 September 1942)
 * Alice Archenhold and Hilde Archenhold, wife and daughter of astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold
 * Eugen Burg, German film actor (died 17 April 1944)
 * Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, editor of the conservative Süddeutsche Monatshefte (died 19 October 1942)
 * Ludwig Chodziesner, German lawyer and father of poet Gertrud Kolmar (died February 1943)
 * Ludwig Czech, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party in pre-war Czechoslovakia and former Czechoslovak minister of Social Care, Public Affairs and Public Health (died 20 August 1942)
 * Robert Desnos, French Surrealist poet (died 8 June 1945)
 * Oskar Fischer, physician (died of a heart attack on 28 February 1942)
 * Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, 1896 Olympics gold medallist (died 28 December 1942)
 * Gabriel Frankl (born in Pohořelice in 1861), father of Viktor Frankl (died 13 February 1943, from pneumonia and starvation).
 * Gisela Januszewska, physician (died 2 March 1943)
 * Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (died 6 March 1945)
 * Emil Kolben, Czech industrialist (founder of ČKD), one of the founders of industrial use of electricity (died 3 September 1943)
 * Clementine Krämer, writer and social worker (died 4 November 1942)
 * Gretchen Metzger (née Guldmann), mother of Otto Metzger (died 28 February 1943)
 * Friedrich Münzer, German classical scholar (died 20 October 1942)
 * Margarethe "Trude" Neumann (born 1893), daughter of Theodor Herzl (died 1943)
 * Auguste van Pels, German Jewish refugee who lived in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank. (It is believed that she died during an evacuation transport of prisoners from Raguhn, a subcamp of Buchenwald to Theresienstadt), (died April 1945)
 * Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, creator of Pick's theorem (died 26 July 1942 after two weeks' imprisonment)
 * Ludwig Pick, German pathologist after whom Niemann-Pick disease and Lubarsch-Pick syndrome are named (died 3 February 1944)
 * Samuel Schallinger, Austrian businessman, co-owner of the Imperial and the Bristol hotels in Vienna (died 1942)
 * Margarete Schiff, daughter of psychotherapist Josef Breuer (died 9 September 1942)
 * Zikmund Schul, composer (died 2 June 1944)
 * Amalie Seckbach (née Buch), a noted painter and sculptor (died 10 August 1944)
 * Mathilde Sussin, actress (died 2 August 1943)
 * Alfred Tauber, Austrian and Slovak mathematician (died 26 July 1942)
 * Ernestine Taube, mother of pianist/composer Artur Schnabel, remained in Vienna after the Anschluss and at the age of 83, in August 1942, was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died two months later.
 * Josefine Winter, daughter of Helene and Rudolf Auspitz

Notable survivors

 * H. G. Adler, German-speaking writer and scholar
 * Karel Ančerl, Czech conductor
 * Inge Auerbacher, author of 6 books (including three memoirs about her experiences in Terezin and recovering after the war), and the subject of a new play, The Star on My Heart (November 2015)
 * Yehuda Bacon, Israeli artist
 * Leo Baeck, German rabbi
 * Aviva Bar-On has lived in Israel since 1949. She is known to have sung in 2018, during a concert celebrating Independence Day in Jerusalem, one of the poet Ilse Weber's songs that was transmitted to her orally and her memory was the only record.
 * Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German playwright
 * Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, German poet
 * Ellen Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach
 * Bela Dekany, Hungarian Jewish-born renowned British violinist and leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
 * Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist who invented anti-gonorrhoea drug Protargol
 * Kurt Epstein, Czech Olympic water polo competitor
 * Emil František Burian, Czech communist playwright, actor, composer and writer
 * Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychologist
 * Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor
 * Petr Ginz, Czech child prodigy writer, died in Auschwitz in 1944
 * Richard Glazar and Karel Unger, they were subsequently transferred to Treblinka, from which they ultimately escaped
 * Michael Gruenbaum, writer
 * Alena Hájková, Czech historian and resistance fighter
 * Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech pianist; the focus of the documentary The Lady in Number 6. Died at 110 years old on 23 February 2014, oldest known survivor of the Holocaust.
 * Fredy Hirsch, deputy leader of the children at Theresienstadt, deported 8 September 1943 to Auschwitz and died 8 March 1944
 * Milada Horáková, Czech politician
 * Berthold Jeiteles, scientist, Talmudic scholar, and descendant of notable Prague family
 * Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist
 * Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician of Slovak origin
 * Gidon Lev, Czech-born Israeli TikTok star and Holocaust educator
 * Arnošt Lustig, Czech novelist
 * Paul Mahrer, professional soccer player (died 1984)
 * Ferdinand Münz (1888-1969), chemist. The inventor of EDTA.
 * Oskar Neumann, Czech lawyer and former president of the Slovak Jewish Council
 * Arnošt Reiser, professor of chemistry, author and inventor
 * Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichordist
 * Jo Spier, illustrator
 * Peter Spier, Author and illustrator of children's books
 * Sam Swaap, Dutch violinist and conductor
 * Emil Utitz, German-language academic
 * Ronald Waterman
 * Ela Weissberger, the Cat in Brundibár (performed in schools around the world in memory of the children who did not survive)