Two years elapsed in March this year since the opening of a touring exhibition entitled Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) in the Faculty of Education of the Charles University in Prague. The display summed up the work carried out by the teams taking part in the project of the same […]
Spring seminars for teachers in the Terezín Memorial
A seminar for Dutch teachers, entitled Learning about Theresienstadt in Terezin and co-sponsored by the Israeli Yad Vashem, was held in the Terezín Memorial between February 28 and March 3, 2019. In addition to a lecture and visits to the former Nazi repressive facilities in Terezín, its participants saw the performance of the children´s opera […]
Petr Ginz´s Drawing and Its Voyage to Outer Space
Monday, April 8, 2019 was a red-letter day for the Terezín Memorial. It welcomed the American astronaut Andrew Feustel with his wife Indira, accompanied by Mrs. Eva Zažímalová, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The distinguished American guest came to present to Mr. Jan Roubínek, Director of the Terezín Memorial, a copy of the […]
Jan Munk Passed Away
Jan Munk, a former long-time Director of the Terezín Memorial, died of a serious illness on May 12, 2019. Jan Munk stood at the helm of the Terezín Memorial between 1990 and 2017 and proved to be one of the leading lights of the large-scale transformation of the Memorial that got under way after 1989. […]
Bohumila Havránková
Bohumila Havránková, née Picková, was born into a Czech-speaking family in Liberec on November 17, 1927. Her mother, a trained dressmaker, stayed at home, while her father was a retail and wholesale trader in textile. While mother was a non-practicing Catholic, father – as a member of the Jewish community –had both his daughters entered, […]
