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Beth El features a remarkable combination of highly spiritual, sacred space for prayer and extremely functional, attractive space for parties, receptions, meetings, and study.
Our main sanctuary seats approximately 400 people, expandable to more than 1,000. Recently refurbished, the reading table is accessible and the slightly raised bimah help foster a greater sense of intimacy and participation.
Our 200-seat capacity chapel, expandable to 500, is the pride and joy of many of our congregants. Its Jerusalem stone, floor to ceiling stained glass panels, unique bronze and glass ark doors, and etched-glass entryway windows truly make one want to worship in song and dance, embodying the words engraved in Hebrew on the doors of the ark.
Most rooms at Beth El are available for rent for private functions, such as:
Religious ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, and b’nai mitzvah for non-members must be approved by the rabbi.
Please contact info@bethelmc.org for information about all rentals.
In 1991, George and Michlean Amir, on the occasion of their daughter Dalia’s bat mitzvah, arranged with the Memorial Scrolls Trust to obtain on indefinite loan to Beth El a Holocaust Torah (scroll MST#276) that was rescued from the town of Heřmanův Městec in Czechoslovakia. The Beth El Torah scroll, located in the Rudolph Gallery, memorializes and honors the victims of the Holocaust and is used for educational purposes.
We list their names in alphabetical order, followed by birth date, the date of their arrival in Terezin (as entered into Nazi records), date of departure to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and their date and place of death where that is known. (Note that “ova” is the feminine form of a family name in Czech.)
Josef Agular Born December 19, 1906 Died in Mauthausen June 1, 1942
Oldfich Agular Born August 23, 1937 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Irma Agularova March 30, 1929 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Julia Agularova Born June 13, 1933 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Marketa Agularova Born December 11, 1931 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Marta Agularova Born October 18, 1927 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Stepan Barbier Born April 12, 1873 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Eliska Barbierova Born May 26, 1892 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Evzen Bass Born June 7, 1877 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 9, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz September 6, 1943 Died in Auschwitz January 2-3, 1944
Julie Bassova Born July 3, 1885 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 9, 1942 Died in Terezin February 11, 1943
Leo Borsan Born September 21, 1897 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Alzbeta Einerova Born September 28, 1862 Arrived in Theresienstadt December·5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt January 12, 1943
Terezie Englanderova Born October 16, 1864 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt January 11, 1944
Ota Flor Born June 25, 1901 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Marketa Florova Born March 14, 1904 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Vera Florova Born March 5, 1934 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Marie Florova-Vohryzkova Born May 1, 1878 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Rabbi Izak Folkmann Born July 14, 1858 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt October 19, 1943
Arnostka Flokmannova Born December 28, 1877 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt March l 0, 1944
Artur Fuchs Born January 14, 1899 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Karel Fuchs Born December 6, 1928 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Helena Fuchsova Born November 11, 1933 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Marie Fuchsova Born July 5, 1861 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Zdenka Fuchsova Born September 20, 1893 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Emil Goldmann Born February 20, 1879 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Jan Goldmann Born November 25, 1920 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Karel Goldmann Born May 15, 1889 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Oskar Goldmann Born September 14, 1887 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Pavel Goldmann Born January 8, 1929 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Bedriska Goldmannova Born January 19, 1890 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Kamila Goldmannova Born April 10, 1865 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Marta Goldmannova Born May 18, 1890 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Rudolf Kacer Born November 15, 1880 Arrived in Theresienstadt February 25, 1945 Died in Theresienstadt April 28, 1945
Hedvika Kohnova Born August 28, 1900 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Arnost Lowit Born December 22, 1897 Died in Mauthausen June 5, 1942
Frantisek Oesterreicher Born November 4, 1913 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 95, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz September 6, 1943
Anna Passerova Born September 27, 1875 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt February 14, 1943
Anna Papalova Born May 15, 1915 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Jltka Papalova Born August 24, 1939 Arrived in Theresienstadt October 24, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Hermina Pokorna Born December 18, 1860 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt December 25, 1942
Vilem Pokorny Born July 1, 1884 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 26, 1942
Julius Pollak Born February 1, 1894 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 23, 1943
Karel Pollak Born July 21, 1924 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 23, 1943
Zdenek Pollak Born September 24, 1928 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 23, 1943
Karolina Pollakova Born November 17, 1894 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 23, 1943
Regina Pollakova Born February 21, 1869 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 23, 1943
Artur Richter Born June 23, 1880 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Josef Richter Born March 6, 1913 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943 Died in Auschwitz February 23, 1943
Klara Richterova Born April 18, 1884 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 20, 1943
Jana Scharpnerova Born April 11, 1869 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz December 15, 1943
Kamila Schlckova Born September 1, 1879 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz October 12, 1944
Karel Schulz Born August 25, 1891 Died in Buchenwald March 10, 1945
Rudolf Spitz Born September 21, 187 4 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Died in Theresienstadt March 29, 1943
Zoofie Traubova Born September 8, 187 5 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz January 15, 1943
Vitezslav Wachsmann Born September 25, 1895 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz May 18, 1944
Berta Wachamannova Born May 21, 1900 Arrived in Theresienstadt December 5, 1942 Transported to Auschwitz May 18, 1944
Pavel Weissbarth Born February 11, 1900 Died in Auschwitz January 17, 1942
Note: Those victims marked as transported but with no additional information are believed to have been sent immediately to the gas chambers. There is no further record for them at Auschwitz.
