Topographical map of the medieval Czech town Brandys

The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Mark Talisman. 

Topographical map of the medieval Czech town Brandys 

overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) 

Topographical map of the medieval Czech town Brandys, possibly created at Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The camp opened in November 24, 1941 and was in operation about 3.5 years, until May 2, 1945. The German SS imprisoned certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews in the ghetto, including many prominent intellectual or cultural figures. There was a large Technical Department where many artists were assigned to work, creating technical drawings, maps, etc. for the camp administration. Many of them secretly created works documenting the actual overcrowded, disease ridden conditions of the camp. The works were buried or hidden behind walls and recovered postwar. Roughly 140,000 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt; nearly 90,000 were sent to camps in the east where most died, and about 33,000 perished in Theresienstadt. 

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Topographical map on light paper of Brandys nad Labem, a town in the Czech Republic, with Czech text and graphics in black ink. A river, outlined in blue ink, entitled Labe [Elbe] is at the top with a small branch that goes through the town. A Jewish cemetery is outlined in red ink on left. The scale legend is at the bottom, 1: 10,000.