Even though the foundation stone to Beit Terezin (also known as Beit Theresienstadt) had been laid already in the late 1960s, the State of Israel officially recognized it as a Holocaust museum (only the third in the country!) as late as in 2011. The reasons are evident. In a way, Beit Terezin had to carve […]
Newsletter 1/2018
From the Terezín Memorial´s Depository
Cinerary Urn of Hermine Mayer as a Recollection of One of the Fates of Austrian and German Jews in the Terezín Ghetto One of the few 3D collection items, recalling the fate of more than 47,000 German and Austrian Jews deported to Terezín in 1942, is the cinerary urn of Hermine Mayer. The urn was […]
Meeting of the European Members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience in the Terezín Memorial
Between November 17 and 19, 2017 the Terezín Memorial hosted representatives of the European members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) at a gathering held under the motto: Inspiration for a New Generation. One of the major goals of the Coalition is to involve young people in taking an active part in […]
Autumn Seminars for Schoolteachers
The 13th educational seminar was held at the turn of October and November 2017 in the Jerusalem memorial Yad Vashem. Co-organized by the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of the Czech Republic and the Terezín Memorial, the seminar was attended by 18 Czech schoolteachers. Its program, aimed at broadening the participants´ knowledge of the […]
