Michaela Vidláková was born to Irma and Jiří Lauscher in Prague on December 30, 1936. Her mother was a teacher in the Jewish elementary school in Prague´s Jáchymova Street, her father was employed in various companies, working mostly in clerical jobs. Both parents, supporters of Zionism, were actively involved in preparatory courses for emigration to […]
The Terezín Ghetto and the Hartman Family
In the fall of 2019 the Terezín Memorial obtained by gift a valuable set of 22 works of art created in the Terezín Ghetto. These include two watercolor drawings by Edita Hartmanová and twenty works made by her son Jan Hartman (primarily watercolor Indian ink drawings). Most of the items depict everyday life in the […]
Workshop offered by the Department of Education: Mummy, Are We Germans or Czechs?
Lecturers of the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education have drafted a methodology for a new workshop entitled Mummy, Are We Germans or Czechs?. This is featured among the Department´s educational programs offered to Czech school groups. Its title was inspired by a quote from a letter by Terezín Ghetto inmate Ilse Weber, written to her […]
Introducing the web Being at School in the in War Years
Since the spring of 2019 you have had an opportunity to browse through the Internet website called Being at School in the War Years, the outcome of a project of the same name carried out jointly by the Terezín Memorial, the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J.A. Comenius, the Terezín Initiative Institute and the […]
Request
Dear readers, we turn to you with the following courteous request: on the chance that you have still in your possession any kind of documents, objects or photographs linked to the Nazi persecution on the territory of the Czech Republic, please, donate them to the Terezin Memorial. Above all we are interested in […]
