Newsletter 04/2025
„I felt compelled to write Children of the Holocaust.“ Although Helen Epstein was born after the war and did not directly experience the Holocaust, it has haunted her and many other ‘children of the Holocaust’ since childhood, like a curse that they do
My name is Michal Arend. I am a sociologist by education, currently retired. I belong to the “Second Generation,” a term referring to the descendants of concentration camp survivors. I was among the first to begin speaking in schools and at public foru
In October 2025, the Terezín Memorial published the Diary of Věra Segerová (1927–1943) and the Terezín Diaries of Arnošt Klein and Marie Kleinová. The volume contains detailed diaries and notes kept by three prisoners of the Terezín Ghetto between 1941
On September 6 and 7, 2025, a seminar took place at the Lidice Memorial and the Terezín Memorial, focusing on the so-called second generation of witnesses—namely, the descendants of individuals who were persecuted by the Nazi regime. This trauma, stemm
From September 11 to 14, the second part of the Czech-Polish educational seminar took place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim. This event was organized by the Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial in collaboration with the In
From October 9 to 12, 2025, an educational seminar for Czech teachers was held for the eleventh time at the Ravensbrück Memorial and the Memorial and Educational Center of the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. This third-level seminar was stag
