Newsletter 04/2024
(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Ka
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Irma Lauscherová. We were, therefore, delighted that her daughter, RNDr. Michaela Vidláková, complied with our request and wrote a short recollection of her mother´s life, complete with the story of
The seminar devoted to the issue of the educational potential of the so-called second generation affected by Nazism in teaching about the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust took place at the Lidice Memorial and the Terezín Memorial on Septembe
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, hosted a seminar for Czech schoolteachers on October 3‒6, 2024. Held regularly since 2002 in collaboration with the Polish Museum, this third-level seminar has been financially supported by the M
The Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial, working in collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, hosted a Czech-Polish educational seminar from September 19 to 22, 2024. This was the second part of this educational pr
Jindřich Karpíšek was born in Jičín on May 31, 1905. He attended primary and junior secondary school in the town, after which he graduated from the teacher training institute. In 1925, he began his military service in Turnov and graduated from the scho
In collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and Open Eye, the Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial has developed the Brněnec Concentration Camp activity for the multimedia online educational platform IWITNESS. This
Louise Hermanová, born Louise Freund on May 8, 1916, came from a Jewish family in Svitavy. Louise’s father was a shopkeeper. When she was only two years old, her mother died of the Spanish flu. Louise and her brother Arnošt, who was five years older, w
The theme of the Terezín Memorial 28th art competition – the Hana Greenfield Memorial – was inspired by the following prompt “The first thing I will do after the war will be…” Whatever this “first thing” was – going home, reuniting with one’s f
The traditional Terezín Commemoration took place at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín on Sunday, May 19, 2024. The event was organized by the Terezín Memorial in cooperation with the Ústí nad Labem Region, the City of Tere
